Essays on Swanson

Family Rights

1. Polyandry relationships provide for marriage system in which a woman can have more than one husband. Speaking from the historical perspective, the emergence of such marital arrangement in Tibet is related to the fact that the social system compelled marriage within a social status category.To understand the Tibetans' practice of polyandry, "it must be realized that Tibetan families consider it of great importance to keep together, without any division, whatever property they possess" (Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, 1962, p. 414). That is the reason why husbands are often brothers or close relatives, which is referred to ...

There are times when a nursing problem arises as a result of a number of findings, and these findings are pulled together into a summary in order to see the big picture created out of these findings. This act of pulling together is what Brown & Ochs (2018) calls a systematic research review (SRR) or systematic review, which helps researchers identify “what is known with certainty, what is tentatively known, and what the gaps in knowledge are regarding an issue” (p.175). It serves as a link between the individual studies performed and the decision making done in order to create ...

Research Paper

Abstract Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is defined as an impairment in neurobehavioral functioning that is characterized by constant and dysfunctional indications of inattention and hyperactivity. Individuals with ADHD usually have major disabilities in interpersonal, social, and academic performance. Moreover, ADHD is related to a number of co-morbid disorders and disabilities like learning impairments, disruptive behavioral patterns, and mood disorders. Numerous treatments have been studied by researchers, but most of them focused on pharmacological treatments. Generally, there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of behavioral treatments in treating ADHD. One of the potential treatments for ADHD-- positive ...

Abstract

This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

Introduction

Globalization and development of technology brought into the picture significant changes in social and economic environments, shaping new organizational strategies, based on human capital and innovation as central concepts of competitive advantage (Swanson and Elwood, 2009). That said information and learning processes became significantly more accessible, while employment relationships are increasingly complex. Some of the latest trends in Strategic HRM include informal learning and information sharing through a digital environment, unsolicited and innovative approach to job hunting and recruitment and selection, online-based HRM Journals and other important aspects of this body of knowledge. The purpose of this work is ...

Executive Summary

Nestlé is a large international company, leader in food and drinks retail sector. The organization is adopting aggressive growth strategy, which involves product line expansion in the Middle East and larger brand presence. The goals of the strategy will be achieved through organic growth as well as M&A. That said HRM strategy is central to the company. Nestlé employs Total Reward Management (TRM) system, Balance Scorecard and incentive-based approach to employee compensation. Importantly, Nestlé believes that retention and motivation of employees are grounded on the personal bonds between the company´s culture and employee. With that, Leadership and Management ...

Impact of Team-Based Approach on Productivity at Nestlé

Introduction

Companies in the contemporary business environment must rely more and more on intangible assets and develop competitive advantage beyond the hard and soft attributes of their products and services. Globalization and internationalization of supply chains demand more flexibility and resilience from the companies, placing pressure on their creative and innovative capabilities (Sims, 2007). That said Human Resource Management (HRM) has gone a long way in transforming from a simple administrative support function to a strategic element in most of the modern forward-looking organizations. Diversity is the key to building sustainable competitive ...

Question 1

The possibility of more European Countries drifting away from the Euro lies in limbo considering the adverse impacts that Brexit has on Britain’s economy. Even before the eventual secession of the UK from the Europe Union, the country has begun to feel the heat and economic turmoil of disengaging with the rest of the countries that form the confederation. Politically, UK is losing grip in the control of Europe as Russia emerges as the best bet to control the entire region. Therefore, leaving out the EU is both an economic and political misery to any country, since the ...

The question of the validity of the use of stimulants for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly connected to the question of attempting to balance the effectiveness of the drugs and the dangers inherent in their use. ADHD is a problematic mental and behavioral disorder especially among children and it is very important that we as a society find an effective method to treat it with the least amount of adverse effects to patients. It is a very good question to ask if a treatment is worth the risks and this definitely the case with the ...

BUSINESS FUNCTIONS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS

Modern businesses in any type of industry vary in their size and scale of operations. When it comes to the analysis of the core business activities, respectively of whether the business has a global, international or national scale, the key responsibilities and functions can be divided into four critical areas: operations, marketing, accounting and finance and the Human Resource Management (HRM). The reality shows that even further break down and segmentation of tasks within these elements does not change the overall layout responsibilities in these areas. The purpose of this assignment is to look at some specific areas of ...

Introduction

Netflix is one of the leading companies in internet streaming industry with extremely aggressive growth strategy in its domestic and international market. Singapore is one of the strategic locations for the organization, which allows access not only to the large and technologically advanced market in the country but also to North Korea and other regions within the East and South East Asian Market (Netflix, 2015). Singapore growth strategy is based on competitive pricing and aggressive differentiation strategy, where Netflix offers own original content and plans to expand production on Singapore local market (Peng, 2015).

Job Analysis

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Rank and Yank performance appraisal system was first implemented by Jack Walsh as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the General Motors Company. The concept of the forced ranking approach to managing labor in the companies since then has received a lot of attention in academic and business literature. While the approach allows developing a number of measures on a personal and professional side and evaluates the individual performance of employees, a lot of critics of the approach argue that the negative outcome of the Rank and Yank approach is the creation of the working environment built upon competition ...

Discussion 5

Introduction The primary goal of every investigating officer is to apprehend the perpetrator before he/she strikes again. Hence, the police will look to push for swift solving of cases. However, while the attitude of police should receive commendation, their motives can wrongfully convict innocent people. Zealous crime fighting often leads to the suffering of innocent people. From the time a crime happens, police officers will be under pressure to solve the crime. The pressure from office bearers and superiors will increase depending on the nature of the crime. This pressure often translates into police misconduct during eyewitness identification lineups ( ...

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Research Outline Introduction of ADHD Diagnostic criteria for ADHD Causes of the development of ADHD Changes in brain structure in ADHD Therapeutic strategies used in ADHD Stimulant medications for the treatment of ADHD Non-stimulant medications for the treatment of ADHD Side effects of the medications Efficacy and safety of medications in the treatment of ADHD Stopping the medications Long-term efficacy and safety of Medications in the treatment of ADHD Concluding Remarks Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a childhood psychiatric problem that is characterized by behavioural and learning disorders (Riva & Njiokiktjien, 2010). It has a strong ...

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Analyze the bioethical issues found within the scenario It has to be noted that Matt’s case presents a controversial ethical and legal situation that has a potential to affect the medical facility, its workers, as well as the family members. There are several bioethical issues involved in the case. First of all, there is a disagreement between the desire of a family to resuscitate their son and the judgment of the physician not to proceed with this procedure due to the low chances that the patient will eventually wake up. Secondly, the nurse finds it morally difficult to ...

Abstract

The cognitive psychology postulates that the environment and the person influence the human behavior. As such, the exposure of the children to the TV shows encompasses the environment that influences the way they interact. Based on the result of the interview, the parents sampled confirm that they have noted behavior change among their children. Indeed, some of the children emulated the characters in the TV shows while others pressure their parents to keep up with the standards in the movies. Notably, the findings of this paper agree with the reviews of previous studies. Particularly, both confer that excess TV ...

Three Ways of Coping with Negative Emotions

Human Resource Management (HRM) has evolved over decades, transforming from a supportive organizational function to one of the most important strategic elements of the contemporary organizations. Globalization and internationalization of supply chains make companies become increasingly concerned with HRM as they recognize the importance of people as the major competitive advantage. With that in mind, HRM looks at retention rates and employee motivation as one of the core responsibilities of the department.While hiring and training are significantly important for reaching effective and productive operations; downsizing or simple employee layoff is another important function of HRM, which can affect not ...

Company XYZ Case Study

One of biggest challenges in the contemporary business environment is the globalization. There are various factors that are discussed in the context of globalization in modern academic and business literature. Some of the major effects of it on the organizations are the dramatically increased pace of change, international mobility of individuals and the organizations, growing diversity and complexity of the business operations by themselves. The truth is that the companies in the modern business environment have to face international supply chain, cross-border operations, and diversity in terms of internal and external stakeholder management. This places numerous pressures on the ...

Introduction

The analysis of Apple Inc. illustrates several challenges that company is facing in the modern business environment. It was identified that in order to grow organically and sustainably in international business environment, Apple should focus on the following three aspects: review current exclusivity policy in the growing economies and markets, such as India; change the pricing policy to widen the target customer range and penetrate middle class segment; introduce simpler and more user-friendly devices to the market to attract new customer, who looks for simplicity and basic use of smartphone. With the above in mind, the organization will require ...

Abstract

Successful andragogy-based outcomes can be realized by the creation of comfortable professional development opportunities that focus on training applicability to address the concerns, interests, needs and issues pertaining to middle adult workers. Participation in practical activities and role playing enable middle adult learners to relate to novel teaching instructions and, by extension, keep them interested and engaged in their work place activities. The reason to keep middle adult staff engaged is to ensure that they have a positive attitude towards their job and that they are able to sustain their productivity for a considerable period. As such, there is ...

Introduction

Contemporary Business Environment places a lot of pressure on the company with regards to sustainable and profitable development. In order to be able to compete in the international arena, companies have to look for new ways to differentiate and diversify their business. One of the biggest challenges for a modern company is to build on internal expertise and skills that would help this organization create competitive advantage based on its intangible assets and people. Individuals are subject to a variety of influences and the employment relationships are becoming more complex. Human Resource Management (HRM) is facing new challenges, such ...

The nervous system (NS) denotes a collection of human body organs as well as connections, which have expressly differentiated cells referred as neurons or other specialized biochemicals, tissues, and supportive cells that assist in the normal working of the human body NS (Swanson, 2015). The human nervous system helps in addressing acquisition, processing, understanding, storing, as well as coordinating or transmitting signals in the body. Therefore, many body organs, as well as sensory organs, possess discrete and different roles. The nervous system (NS) can be categorized into two, that is, peripheral nervous system (PNS) as well as central nervous ...

Should Teacher Pay be based on Student Performance?

In order to implement any pay system and merit-based pay in the companies it is essential that these organizaions define their terms and goals as well as clearly outline the pupose of the programs that ar being implemented. Educational field is not an exception (Gratz, 2009) and many organizations are looking for effectibv ways to implement performance pay. But what Performance Pay actually mean and how shoud it be defined and measured? It is critical to understad that perfomance-based compenation is a way to reward employees and demonstrates areas for improvement. This only works in the environment, which offers ...

Different training programs are often adopted to fill particular gaps within the workplace. In these training, evaluation plays a critical role in the analysis, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) process. Besides, the evaluation as critical part of the ADDIE process is not usually implemented the way it should or not given a thought altogether. Evaluation is crucial; since it gives training coordinators or leaders, a chance to establish whether the plan has realized its desired goals; when this is not the case, it allows concerned parties to plan the next move wisely. When employing the ADDIE model in ...

The movie “Training Day” captures certain aspects of corruption and unprofessional conduct of a Narc officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). There are several instances of unscrupulous behavior by police officers. There are nineteen incidents of misconduct and two limitations shown in the movie. The incident leading to the unfortunate turn of events only finds mention in the movie. The Narc officer kills a member of the Russian mob and has to make a restitution by midnight to save his own life. The events portrayed in the movie involve the conspiracy played out by the Narc officer ...

Diversity Management in Contemporary Organization

The contemporary business environment is a complex mechanism of relationships on organizational, group and individual levels, where the trend of internationalization and blurring business and economic boundaries between the countries places more emphasis on adaptability and unique competitive advantage, based on intangible assets. For many companies, growth and profitability mean organic and inorganic expansion to foreign markets and, thus, there is an increasing concern about diversity and management of cross-cultural differences within and outside of the companies. The reality of such retail giants as Tesco, Walmart, Starbucks Coffee Company and many others demonstrates that in order to build on ...

Background and key players

In 1919, the city of Boston faced an unusual situation where its police department went on an indefinite strike demanding the right to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor and for enhanced remuneration. In the decade before, the Boston Police Department’s officers received reasonable remunerations up to $1400 per year. The salaries graded according to the rank and position of the individual. The economic conditions were supportive for police officers to lead a reasonable lifestyle. However, all of that changed with the First World War. The years immediately following the end of the war were particularly hard ...

Reply 1: JW

I started my online field trip by visiting the Illinois Education Association (IEA) website. The organization was formed in 1853 and is afflicted with NEA (National Education Association). IEA comprises of educators and teachers seeking to serve the public educational interests in the state of Illinois. The organization aims at affecting equity and excellence in public education and be an advocacy group for all employees in public education. The website allows educators and teachers alike to be updated with educational legislation in Illinois and also provides other useful information. A link on the website links you to the Danielson ...

Introduction

Police officers and their actions fall under the scrutiny of the society and the Constitutional Amendments that protect their rights. Although state legislatures adopt different approaches to arrest criminal behavior, the police departments across the nation are subjective to Federal laws in case of violations. The most common complaints against the police in recent years include excessive force, violation of civil rights, unbecoming of an officer, and deliberate indifference. Police officers enjoy limited immunity and cannot be accountable individually. However, the department as a whole will face the damages. In the political climate today with shrinking police budgets, lawsuits ...

Abstract

Globalization and the vaiety of external factors, affecting change management transformed the role of Human Resource Development (HRM) from facilitator to change leader and highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence on individual and group levels within the organizations (Yaeger and Sorensen, 2009).

Human Resource Management

Q1: How would you define OD and its relationship to HRD? Swanson and Elwood (2009) argue that the fundamental role of OD in a given organization was to bring to light incremental change. Traditional OD focuses on planned incremental change with smaller scope and scale within the company. OD as compared to the change management initiatives in ...

Marketing and consumption decisions

Introduction Marketing entails the process through which groups and individuals obtain what they want and need by exchanging and creating products and value with others (Same, 2012). Thus, marketing is the process of delivering customer satisfaction at a profit. The objective of marketing is to satisfy the needs and wants of a customer better than the competitor. There are a variety of activities that are involved in marketing. These activities include identifying the needs of the customers, designing of the product, promotion of the products or services benefits with the aim of motivating purchase, pricing and ensuring they are ...

REPLY 1: EC

The lack of synergy amongst diverse elements within the closed system, the lack of control and the lack of output within the system may have contributed to the marginal results.

Identify and discuss instances of an aggregate mentality at work in this case.

Aggregate mentality is first witnessed amongst the subgroups recommendations within the task force whereby no new recommendations to the closed system are made. Whereas one group recommends the taking up of total quality management and another recommends a return to the basics, no effort towards the overhaul of the system is made. Would Karen today describer her school or school system as relatively open or relatively closed? Why? Classify ...

Jane Doe

Since the early days, psychologists, teachers, parents and health professionals have been interested in the effects media has on children. One of the things, which appear to be a problem seen among children who have had excessive exposure to violent video games and television is an increased level of aggression. The following study reviews peer-reviewed articles to understand if any link exists between exposure to violent video games and increased levels of aggression in children and adolescents. The focus of the studies examined will remain on violent video games due to their popularity among young children and adolescents. It ...

Chapter 4 question:

Of the HRD theory references cited which one interests you the most? Why? The system theory interests me the most due to a number of things that have been explained to us from the book. It is seen to be the most recommendable for the design of programs for responding to realized problems. In an organization when an issue or a problem hits it, the need is mostly how to get out of the problem hence the need for the system theory. The theory breaks down the problem into the different part that is easily solved (Swanson et al, ...