...PREFACE Adam Jefferson, a divine manifest of Adam Smith's materialism and Thomas Jefferson's idealism, is our troubled modern day hero. He awoke in the middle of his life - broke and lost. A serial entrepreneur, his life was a never-ending quest for material success. At age 38, as Joseph Campbell forewarned humanity, Adam had "climbed the ladder of success, only to realize it was propped up against the wrong wall." Alone, with nothing else to lose, Adam Jefferson climbed down off of the ladder and searched for the wall of his future. This led him on a 100-day odyssey to start the ascent of his new life, an epic journey which called him across the world discussing today's challenges and opportunities with the great minds of our past - Carl Jung, Mary Parker-Follett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and many others. An act of their collective genius and magical combustion, a psychological and sociological theory for sustainability and success was formed. Like all heroic quests, Adam ended where he had begun. Prior to his expedition, Adam had an unforgettable encounter with one of the great minds of the 20th century. One freezing, early morning on January 17, 2009, Adam Jefferson met the famed Harvard psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They walked the beach in Winthrop for hours, discussing morality and the questions one ponders in the solitude of despair. They exchange woes - "You tell me yours, and I will tell you mine."...
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...planned effort by a company to facilitate employees` learning of job related competencies. These competencies include knowledge, skills or behavior that are critical for job performance. The goal of training is for employees to master the knowledge, skills, and behaviors emphasized in training programs and to apply them to their day to day activities. Training is the formal and systematic modification of behavior through learning occurs as a result of education, instruction, development and planned experience. 2. What are the organizational vision, mission, and strategic goals? 2.1 Vision Aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve or accomplish in the mid-term or long-term future. It is intended to serves as a clear guide for choosing current and future courses of action. See also mission statement. 2.2Mission A mission statement is a formal, short, written statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a sense of direction, and guide decision-making. It provides "the framework or context within which the company's strategies are formulated. The vision and the mission are powerful statements that help drive an organization forward. They are often confused with one another, and some organizations even use them interchangeably. In simplest terms, the mission is why you exist, and vision is what you want to be. 2.3 Strategic goals ...
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...The complexity of health care system continues to development. Health promotion was defined as a health care process of people to control of and improve their health by behaviors change and it is important for nurses to focus on the areas of individual, family, community, socioeconomic, cultural and environmental. This process allows people to reach their tremendous health potential for self-change by new behaviors and improves their environment and activities for disease prevention. In addition to the concept of health promotion, it includes health information, reliable resources and health promotion activities to achieve better quality of life and well-being. Currently, Pender, Murdaugh & Parsons (2011) describes that “health promotion is behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential” (p. 5). The purpose of health promotion is nursing practice is to incorporate with people to make choices and decisions for engaging healthy behaviors to have health lifestyles in multidimensional areas, such as cultural and socioeconomic dimensions. As changes in nursing practice and education, nurse’s professional role and responsibilities have expended and nurses have more opportunities to play a central role in peoples’ health care. To better assist people to recognize health problems and to choose effective ways for preventing diseases and promoting longevity, nurses need to work as educator, advocate, care managers, consultant, services, healer...
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...in shaping a healthy organizational climate has many facets. Both leadership and organizational culture are difficult concepts to define, as many researchers have chosen to define each in various ways. For the purposes of this paper, I examine leadership as a process that guides both leaders and followers to a common goal, that being a shared culture that binds the members together in a healthy and productive climate. I present several leadership factors that play an important role in shaping a healthy organizational culture. The Role of Leadership in Shaping Organizational Culture One of the most critical roles of a leader is to create and maintain a healthy culture in his or her organization. This needs to happen at all levels of an organization, so the responsibility rests with all levels of leadership, from the most senior executives down to the first line supervisor. Culture represents the organization’s personality and has a critical influence on both employee satisfaction and organizational success. While every organization has a culture, it is often misunderstood by the members of the organization due to various interpretations between departments or divisions, both laterally and hierarchically. While some variation may be necessary to meet business demands in larger organizations, it is important for all organizations, both large and small, to have an overarching culture that is ingrained and functioning throughout the entire organization. Leaders must...
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...ORGANISATION An organization (or organisation) is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. The word is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon which means "organ" – a compartment for a particular task. ORGANISER a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise; "she was the organizer of the meeting" 1. Communicator – the community organizer transfers or transmits information, thought, knowledge etc. to the members of the community.Sharing of information enables the community to be better prepared and empowered with information. The communication between the organizer and the community and within the community is essential. The people have to be prepared and known about the various effects of consequences of the community organization process. The communication takes place by individual contact, group meetings, group discussions, public meetings etc. At times the community organizer takes an upper hand and considers that the people are illiterate and ignorant and hence the dealings with the people become a master slave relationship. In order to avoid any such undesired relationship the community organizer has transparency and communicates with the people. The communication enables better interaction which leads to a healthy relationship and cooperation for further action and response. The community organizer in order to disseminate the information to the people...
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...assignment 2, question 4 one will explained how this is a service to customers is specific responsiveness while service to all of the citizens is general responsiveness. To accomplish this, one will propose two ethical concerns that management may need to address. Create the context in which such concerns may or may not be ethical in nature. This paper will also show the overall manner in which organizational structure impacts organizational ethics by selecting one non-profit organization in which your challenges may not be considered actual challenges. Also in this paper, the writer will use the Inventory of Public Management Skills Management to construct a self-evaluation, assess the level of development in each of the skills, and propose a few activities that would help to improve the skills in question. Finally, one will use the results of the self-evaluation and recommendations from Question 3 to formulate a response to the challenges that have presented that create a win-win situation for the organization, the employees, and the public. Predict two potential obstacles to success and two plans to overcome such obstacles. The Ethical Concerns (for Question 1) When chosen an issue that from the Whitehouse.gov site, the issue is of “early childhood education” or rather the lack of high quality early childhood education was an easy pick. However, now one must express the ethical concerns between human resource management, and budgeting. (Whitehouse.gov, 2015) Human resources...
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...American University of Sharjah Master of Business Management MBA 509 | Marketing Concepts Spring 2015 Marketing communication strategies and applications in the nutraceutical industry in UAE By Nadia B. Azzam ID 27379 Submitted to Dr. Mohammed Sajid Khan Submission Date May 31, 2015 1 Table of Contents 1.0. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 3 2.0. Literature review .................................................................................................................. 3 3.0. Application of Promotional strategies in Nutraceutical Dr. Nutrition Centre, UAE ........... 7 4.0. Conclusion ......................................................................................................................... 10 5.0. References .......................................................................................................................... 12 2 1.0. Introduction In today’s society, consumers are bombarded with a massive number of promotional messages delivered to them through different mediums and from different organizations. Whether at home watching TV, listening to Radio, walking in the mall or driving through the city, consumers get exposed to those messages which they process through different channels, and eventually create behavioral responses. However, due to the competitiveness in the market...
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...The Long Conversation: LEARNING HOW TO MASTER ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS Oswaldo Lorenzo Peter Kawalek Boumediene Ramdani cquiring large-scale Enterprise Systems (ESs) such as SAP or Oracle is typically a huge investment for any firm. The cost of an ES with sophisticated multi-modules can run into the millions of dollars. A study of total costs of ES ownership by the Aberdeen Group reveals that companies with turnovers between $1–$5 billion pay an average of $5,920,785, and companies with turnovers between $50 and 100 million pay an average of $1,081,869 for a complete ES package, which includes the configuration and implementation of software, after-sales service, and maintenance.1 ESs promise much, but are expensive, complex, and threaten the status quo of relationships in an organization. Hence implementation is frequently fraught with difficulties. Change management costs can mount as old systems are discarded or modified, staff is trained, old processes are set aside and new procedures adopted. Subsequently, organizations seek a rapid return on their investment by designing project plans that minimize risk. In the early years, few ES implementations lived up to their expectations and today many organizations continue to struggle to achieve the results expected and desired from ESs. How can companies reach a point where their expectations are met or exceeded? Far from offering a quick fix, or providing a fast track to an order of magnitude improvement, ESs are better understood...
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...Penalties Deborah A. Reynolds Chamberlain School of Nursing Life is full of choices. A nurse who has been named nurse of the year twice in her career, has her masters in science, and has her certification in critical care also weighs three hundred pounds. A computer engineer who has designed a patented accounts payable program also goes home nightly and relaxes with a six pack of beer. A cashier at the local Wegmans has the record for scanning more products per hour than anyone else in the organization also smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. An accountant who has never missed a day’s work also races in dirt bike tournaments. An African American father adds salt to everything he eats. A farmer sprays his fields with fertilizer, but never wears a mask. A fifty-year old man working in a factory never sees a doctor also has a strong family history of cancer. Lifestyle choices carry health risks. Who is ultimately responsible for the costs of unhealthy lifestyle choices? Healthcare in America is threatened by rising health care costs and the increasing incidence and financial burden of chronic diseases. As employers, insurance companies, and the government seek to decrease these escalating costs, there is a concentration on individual health behavioral choices and the personal obligation of the individual to adopt healthy lifestyle choices. Within the framework of health care reform, there is a growing initiative by employers to impose financial health insurance penalties for...
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...Leadership Style Segun Akinyemi Strayer University BUS 520: Leadership and Organizational Behaviors Professor: Laura Poluka Spring, 2014 Abstract The success of any organization depends on the leadership of the organization, it is important to stress how important the effectiveness of a leader is to the organization he is leading. This paper will examine the effectiveness of the Google CEO as a case study, the leadership style and the CEO organizational value. The ethical behavior of a leader can affect the effectiveness of other workers in the organization as the leader in any organization are often seen as an object of emulation by the employee of the company. Ethical behavior of Google CEO shall be review in this paper as well as the significant value that made the leader a successful CEO. Background of Google CEO (Larry Page) Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998, since inception, the company has recorded a growth of over 40,000 employees worldwide, Larry Page co-founded Google while pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford University and became the first CEO until 2001growing the company to over 200 employees during the period. From 2001 to 2011, larry became the president of product for the company. He holds a bachelor degree in Engineering from University of Michigan and his masters in computer science from Stanford University. Larry was honored with Marconi’s prize in 2004, He is also a member of National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University...
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...How Management and Strategy Applies in My Workplace James F. Adams, Jr. Webster University This essay will highlight some of the Management and Strategy topics that were taught in class this semester and how it relates to my job in the United States Air Force. For the purpose of this essay, I will focus more on my workplace, which is with the 56th Security Forces Squadron located at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Strategic Management: First and foremost, I’ll begin by briefly summarizing what the United States Air Force (USAF) is and the purpose for their existence. The USAF is one of seven uniformed services in the United States. They were initial part of the U.S. Army until 18 September 1947; the day the USAF became a separate branch of the military per National Security Act of 1947. The USAF is a military service within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The USAF is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The highest-ranking military officer in the USAF is the Chief of Staff of the Air Force who exercises supervision over all Air Force units, and serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Our Mission: The mission of the USAF is to fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace (USAF, 2014). Core Values: The Air Force (AF) bases these core competencies and distinctive capabilities on a shared...
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...associate degrees and baccalaureate degrees. The Dominica State College Vision is to be recognized as a premiere institution of higher learning, committed to excellence and responsive to the needs of all stakeholders, and to the social, spiritual and economic challenges which face the Dominican society in the global environment. The institution has over 2000 students and employs over 50 faculty members among other staff and management personals. CURRENT CULTURE The Dominica State College shows a high level of avoidance culture, this characterizes organizations that fail to reward success, quick to punish while members are inclined to shift responsibilities to others. This typifies a culture where workers are not really bothered to an extent whereby their productivity is disturbingly low. The institution workers are also found in is in the high percentile for oppositional culture. An Oppositional culture describes organizations in which confrontation and negativism are rewarded. Members gain status and influence by being critical and thus are reinforced to oppose the ideas of others. This corroborates the type of negative current which flows at the work place hence receiving in sufficient attention to...
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...Essentials of Organizational Behavior, 12e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 1 What is Organizational Behavior? 1) Until the late 1980s, business school curricula emphasized the ________ aspects of management. A) ethical B) people C) technical D) human E) global Answer: C Explanation: C) Until the late 1980s, business school curricula emphasized the technical aspects of management, focusing on economics, accounting, finance, and quantitative techniques. Course work in human behavior and people skills received relatively less attention. Over the past three decades, however, business faculty have come to realize the role that understanding human behavior plays in determining a manager's effectiveness, and required courses on people skills have been added to many curricula. Diff: 1 Objective: Management and Leadership Quest. Category: Concept/Definitional LO: 1 2) Which of the following is not a reason why business schools have begun to include classes on organizational behavior? A) to increase manager effectiveness in organizations B) to help organizations attract top quality employees C) to expand organizations' consulting needs D) to improve retention of quality workers E) to help increase organizations' profits Answer: C Explanation: C) Understanding human behavior plays an important role in determining a manager's effectiveness. Developing managers' interpersonal skills helps organizations attract and keep high-performing employees. Positive social relationships...
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...Question 1: According to the text organizational behavior is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations. Organizational behavior is related to human resources, which focuses on the applications of organizational behavior, because if used effectively human resource management is responsible for molding the perceptions of employees to help an organization reach their mission. It is the responsibility of human resources to manage the concerns and issues of the well-being of its employees, ultimately leaving employees with a positive attitude and being more productive so that they are eager to adequately perform and fulfill their duties. Not only is organizational behavior related to human resource management, but it is also related to organizational strategy, which according to the book is devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization’s profitabailtiy. Organizational behavior is related to organizational strategy because the job performance of employees affects the overall success of an organization. Also, it is related because organizational behavior should focus on organizing and managing the employees knowledge and skills so that they can implement the organization’s strategy in their daily task so that the organization can compete. ------------------------------------------------- Question 2: Ex #1) The Rule...
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...to nursing where the patient takes an active role in their own rehabilitation. This critical review takes a look at the purpose of the self-care theory, major concepts and definitions, its assumptions, its strengths and its weaknesses. The information provided in this report could be of benefit to a recently enrolled nursing student or any individual who wants to have a broader concept of one of the major nursing theories. Brief Summary of Theory Orem’s self-care theory of nursing basically surmises that the main purpose of the nurse is to facilitate the patient’s recovery; by helping the patients get to a point where they can help themselves. The self-care theory adopts the position that a healthy person is capable of taking care of themselves, therefore to get a sick person healthy; a nurse needs to help them to get to that state where they can administer self-care. It is the nurse’s responsibility to assess the patient’s ability to provide self-care. “Orem's Self Care Theory examines how people or communities can...
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