...finding work for workers who have been unemployed since the recent recession. After many years of leading the manufacturing industry, the recent economic crisis, as well as the growth of the competitive global market, has caused many U.S. factories to shut down, and in turn caused a rapid decline in employment of U.S. workers (Baily, Manyika, & Gupta, 2013). However, simply employing the U.S. workers will not solve the high unemployment problem the country is facing. In this global marketplace, the United States will not only need to make improvement in the economy to create jobs that are robust and sustainable, but will also need to build a workforce that is strong and trained with the right skills (Baily & Bosworth, 2014). This paper will first look at the significant events of the history of U.S. labor to understand the current situation of the U.S. economy and how it has affected the workers. In this paper, U.S. labor, workforce or labor force refers to a pool of people who are employed in the United States. Since manufacturing is a significant source of employment for U.S. workers, the government has made advanced manufacturing as the center of its economic agenda to help with recovering the U.S. economy. Advanced manufacturing, as described in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report, is an effort to improve the U.S. industry in systems engineering using materials that are cutting edge with innovative technologies (PCAST,...
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...As technology becomes more advanced, the intellect of people decreases. In today’s ever changing environment, technology is becoming more prevalent as the expected knowledge or common knowledge in all aspects of society. Some of the most noticeable aspects of society affected by technology are: schools (at all age levels), social life (both online and in person), and businesses (concerning the use of technology for normal operation). In theory, the groups of people most affected by the changing technological environment are children and young teens. According to Gerhard Lenski, the younger generation is affected more because the standard of technology they are exposed to is more than older generations were exposed to in the past (Macionis, J. J.,2010). According to Gerhard Lenski’s theory of society and technology, “Inventing or adopting new technology sends ripples of change throughout a society (Macionis, J. J., 2010). Based on Lenski’s theory, the grandparents of a family would have difficulty adapting to the new technology used today, while the grandchildren would have some difficulties living the way the Grandparents did when they were young. The older generation had to complete all of their work without autocorrect, calculators, or computers to automatically calculate equations. So, with the use of more technology now than in the past, some believe that as technology becomes more advanced, the intellect of people decrease(s). The first example of the decrease in intellect...
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...SUMMARY Going forward into the future world of information technology networking. Cisco to introduce CCNP Certification revision focuses on the competencies, verifies and troubleshoots the networks of today and is designed to Be more predictive of job readiness. - Extensive hands-on labs, e-learning lessons and self-paced demos reinforce Maintenance and troubleshooting this certificate will make it easier for employers in their employment selection Process that the basic knowledge needs are met in IT Network engineer. Cisco has a certificate platform that will Lead you to the CCNP CERT. CCNA operation CERT. for the entry- level / student, in the field. A good trouble Shooting networking techn, with these certifications. Will be in very high demand, an opening / evolving market for Networking is medical field. Intergrading the latest technology incorporating voice, video and data entry wired or Wireless etc. doctors can brain storm countries apart in seconds or minutes. Just one example. At the rate of growth 7.5 percent 2010 and yearly per cisco data. One in the field can have a sense of job security. Following the cisco Cert. program. Expansion of certification program meets growing global demand for skilled network professional Steven carter itt-tech Strategies for the technical professional gs1145t Mr Turnbough Abstract Cisco has updated its CCNP certification with a significant amount of new content through a comprehensive...
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...Toyota has a global geographic structure with subsidiaries and plants all over the world. Toyota's external environment relates to major forces outside the organization with potential to influence significantly their products and services. Toyota America will be analysed in terms of the opportunities and problems they are currently facing and their likely contributing factors. Under the general environment we will be discussing the six dimensions: demographics, economic, sociocultural, global, technological and political/legal dimensions respectively. The current demographic situation in the US is that baby boomers are retiring. This will not directly influence Toyotas sales, but will influence the future buyers and vehicles that will need to be produced. Toyota is currently the most profitable automobile company in the industry. The general industry that Toyota competes is with the big three's and Honda. Right now the U.S. economy is in turmoil. Profitability outlooks are almost out the door. The American public is simply not buying, thus making it tough for Toyota along with their competitors. Threw out the late 40's to the present Toyota's sales have steadily increased. The reason for this increase in sales was the negative reputation that American people had against the Japanese after WWII. This stigma has long been forgotten in the American society, thus accommodate Toyota factories in the US in the late 80's. Presently the Toyota Company is widely accepted by general society...
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...Sherman Computer Repair New Direction Sherman Computer Repair New Direction This paper will examine the Sherman Computer Repair Company and their external environment. Sherman Computer Repair (SCR) is an undersized company that repairs damaged computers. At present, SRC has three business locations where patrons can purchase repairs on broken hardware. At the location of all three business sites SRC employs three full-time computer techs, one on-site manager along with one receptionist. In addition, SRC also employs 12 mobile techs that provide SRC customers with the choice of reliable in house repair service. Sherman Computer Repair wishes to broaden their horizons by embracing computer assembly to fill the void left by a competitor called Synergetic. Sherman's approaching progress into the industry of computer assembly is one that carries risky implication for them. Sherman Computer Repair must first hire a new professional staff and obtain new technological expertise to make their company transformation successful. This paper will analyze how SRC can meet their goals and grow from the future business prospect. Sherman Computer Repair Organizational Design The Business Directory defines organizational design as formal and informal framework of policies and rules, within which an organization arranges its lines of authority and communications, and allocates rights and duties. Organizational structure is found to determine the manner and extent to which roles, power...
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...BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN SMALL AND MEDIUM INDUSTRIES IN KENYA Jacob Luballo Muyoyo Gangla Department of Computer Studies Kenya Technical Teachers College P.O. Box 44600 Nairobi - (0)20 7120212, 0729994440 E-mail:Luballomuyoyo@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Small and medium scale industries (SMIs) are increasing under pressure to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) to survive or be competitive. Previous studies suggest that AMTs can diffuse in SMIs that adopt new ways of thinking, have a workforce with higher level of skills, a flexible organizational structure and inculcate a new culture in managing, training and planning of the manufacturing technologies. However, in Kenya where SMIs appear slow to adopt AMTs, little work appears to have been done on the ability of SMIs to implement AMTs successfully. An exploratory survey of 60 SMIs suggest the need to rethink implementation of AMTs if they are to obtain strategic benefits of AMTs. In particular, they need to rethink their organic structure and understanding of the technologies, plan their level of skilled workers and engineers, and change their culture. Increasing their competitiveness and organizational flexibility requires a flexible structure, training of the workers to running multiple machines, stopping production when problem occurs, communicating organizational goals, and participating in idea generation and decision making. Further, SMIs...
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... In the past few decades technology was developed in a rabid manner affecting sharply human beings lives at all levels and aspects touching on all areas of human activities and changing our views, ideas, believes and values from what existed before the Technological Revolution to what we are standing at now. The advanced technology has connected different people with different backgrounds and from different parts of the world together and made it much easier to exchange information & experience leading to enormous changes in the globe which became as a small village. This advanced technology as we said has affected almost every aspect of our life from getting the people from different parts of the world closer, to the dramatic increase in production of material and services to overtake demand level leading to enormous reduction in prices and firing the spark of competition in the globe open market to the max. In the other hand prices dramatically increased for raw material being with limited resources which started to be consumed by at a high rate by the incredible increase of production resulted from advanced machinery. A conflict started to shape between the benefits of the advanced technology, and the economical results of this technology revolution, putting business owners at huge challenge to face these changes where they had to start implementing new methods...
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...June 2011 Management of Change Organizations adopt programmes of planned change when they detect changes in their task environments, their responses can include: • Changing goals and strategy • Altering technology • Restructuring the organization • Setting up new work systems • Attracting and hiring new people • Altering control systems 1. Regardless of the approach taken, what fundamental characteristics must underline any planned change programme? 2. Using an example of your choice, which teams are more suitable to lead change and which are more suitable to implement change? ANSWERS The fundamental characteristics that must underline any planned change programme are: • Change of strategy • Adopt organizational culture • Set up new flexible patterns and methods of work • Invest in production and maintenance of high quality staff • Alter technology to an advanced state • Ethical standard • Enforce new guidelines and control policies • Restructure the organization 3. Using an example of your choice, which teams are more suitable to lead change and which are more suitable to implement change? • The teams that are more suitable to lead change are the management team and the change team. The management team is responsible for the overall performance of service delivery / operational plan of a business unit...
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...Management Theory, Practice, and Application MGT/330 January 30, 2012 The Organizing Function of Management at Walmart The organizing functions of management relates to many organizational resources. Knowledge and technology are the two that I chose to focus on. Knowledge as an aspect of organizing functions of management is concerned with intense acquiring then gathering information and later on using the information correctly. Technology, on the other hand, is critical in todays fast evolving and rapidly changing technological society. Walmart is a business enterprise that has developed efficiency in utilizing these two organizing functions; knowledge and technology. Walmart has integrated knowledge on a vast variety of many topics as part of their corporation. In the recent years, ethnical diversity has adjusted almost perfectly in the workplace. Knowledge of this diversity is essential in maintaining a harmonious work environment. This environment creates success and creativity among the employees. Ethnics ensure that work related skills are incorporated from various perspectives therefore diversity ensures that creativity is enhanced (Bateman & Snell, 2009). Due to difference in managerial skills, managers will be in a better position to execute the best strategies to ensure that fewer conflicts are experienced due to misunderstandings on racial or cultural basis. Language barriers between individuals of different backgrounds are avoided by the proper use...
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...SYNTHESIS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES BROWN_K_W5A2_SU_NSG5000 Kerry Ann Brown South University Due to the changing health care environment, the nursing profession is currently in a process of evolution. Scopes of practice and role expansions are being prepared. Some of these roles are traditional, such as nurse practitioners who have been fighting for equality and recognition since the early 19th century. With the advent of technological advancements in health care new roles such as nurse informaticists, recognized as a specialty in the later part of the 20th century, are being put into practice and defined. More responsibilities are being given to the nursing profession due to its knowledge base within the constructs of organization, implementation, and evaluation skills with a human approach. During the context of this class much knowledge was gained in respect to the nurse practitioner (NP), nurse administrator, nurse educator, and nurse informaticist (nurse informatics specialist). Because health care is changing, the aforementioned roles are also evolving, this paper will explore the commonalities with each advance practice role and analyze the roles and contributions of the nurse informatics specialist. The nurse practitioner is a postgraduate prepared registered nurse, who has either a master’s degree or doctorate. Upon graduation, NPs possess a wealth of knowledge allowing them to independently manage direct clinical aspects of patient-centered holistic...
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...articles; “Adult Learning Theory: Applications to Non-Traditional College Students “(Kenner, Weinerman) and “Adult learning styles and on-line educational preference” (McGlone). The articles describe multiple aspects of how an adult learns compared to a child and what life experiences adults bring into their educational environment. Adult learning theory is based on the way to adult learners comprehend and learn as they are older adults and not children. This theory also studies how adults learn when studying online. Newer adult learners bring learning styles and life experiences that provide a more critical foundation. Online learning is now the new basis for adult learners. To understand how adult learning theory works, the teacher must first understand andragogy, which is an advanced field of psychology in which the age of the learner, is studied. An andragogy study is a process-focused approach and was not studied until the 1960s and 1970s. Before that, only pedagogy was studied, which is the way that children learn. Children and adults learn completely different. In recent research, it is shown that adults learn best with a self-paced learning environment, which means instruction from the teacher and all of the guidance done solely by the students. Most adult learners are more eager than traditional students to learn since this is normally their second chance at a good education. Most adult learners are more eager to learn and stay goal oriented than traditional students...
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...a system that is more patient centered. To do this, there needs to be a complete transformation of the healthcare system as it currently stands. The roles of healthcare professionals will have to be reviewed and redefined; and with newly developed initiatives and programs to create the necessary improvements. As mentioned in this report, “If the system is to capitalize on this opportunity, however, the constraints of outdated policies, regulations, and cultural barriers, including those related to scope of practice, will have to be lifted.” (p. 5). This calls for advanced education and training, along with leadership. Health care is ever-changing and for patient-centered care to excel, competencies, advanced education and training need to be on-going. Education should also be multi-disciplinary and include physicians and other health care staff to ensure unity and conformity of the goal. The primary goal of advanced...
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...Prepared for: ASSOC. PROF. DR. AZIZ SULAIMAN Introduction The Telecommunications industry is currently undergoing changes due to globalization and new technological developments. Links between technologies within the technological system will change over time and affect the structure of the industrial network and firm behavior. Thus, organizations that successfully align service roles with advanced information technology can achieve comparative advantages in the marketplace (Youngdahl and Loomba, 2000). The deregulation and privatization of Malaysia’s telecommunications sector leads to technological innovation in the sector. Two forces drive the sector, namely technological innovation which drives the developed or matured markets; and technological diffusion which drives the developing or emerging ones (Telekom Malaysia Berhad, 2006). There is a need to adapt to developments in the global economy and local environment to strengthen the financial position and enhance service competitiveness (Telekom Malaysia Berhad, 2004). Thus, achieving the right service quality is important as it is the driving force for productivity and profitability. Good service could be achieved through empowerment (Tschohl, 1998) and the staff ability to produce more, adapt to changing technologies and to be more innovative. Innovation, productivity and adapt to change is very important for a firm in order to be competitive in telecommunications industry. These three elements are somehow interrelated...
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...Section A: Personal Information In this section the author would like to gather personal information from respondents. (Please tick “X” at appropriate response.) Q1. What is your age? Below 21 years||21-30 years|||| 31-40 years||Above 41|||| Q2. What Gender? Male|| Female|| Q3. What programme are u undergoing currently at Twintech? Master degree||Diploma||Others|| Bachelor degree||SPM|| || Section B: ATTITUDE The section below is seeking the Attitude of students towards acceptance of e-learning to the e-learning system used by institution. Respondents are asked to indicate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with each statement using 5 Likert scale [(1) = strongly disagree; (2) = disagree; (3) = neutral; (4) = agree and (5) = strongly agree] response framework. Please put an “X” to the BOX to indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements. No|Questions|Strongly Disagree|Disagree|Neutral|Agree|Strongly Agree| B1|Attitude|||||| A1|I feel at ease using e-learning provided by my institution.|||||| A2|I tend to feel convince and accept the e-learning system into my life style.|||||| A3|I feel convince that, e-learning will enhance my education skill.|||||| A4|I feel the e-learning system, attracts me to my institution.|||||| A5|I generally believe in the e-learning system as it makes learning less stressful.||||| | From the section C to section H ALSO HELP TO DETERMINE WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF E-LEARNING...
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...Capstone in Information Technology Jon A. Preston Assistant Professor Scott Taylor Instructional Assistant Department of Information Technology Clayton College and State University Morrow, GA 30260-0285 ABSTRACT Universities interested in keeping pace with the rapidly changing field of Information Technology (IT) are often pulled in many directions. Because Information Technology is such a popular field of study and work, educators must manage rising enrollments in an era where the ubiquity of information technology demands an ever-increasing number of specializations. As a result, industry and students expect a wider range of courses and specializations in their upper division coursework. E -commerce, one of the most promising of these maturing Information Technology specializations, affords an excellent opportunity to draw together the fundamentals of the field into a capstone series of courses. E -commerce fulfills a present demand from industry, provides a wonderful project and group-based “studio-style” learning environment, and is quite popular with students. This paper discusses our e-commerce degree specialization as a capstone to undergraduate Information Technology coursework. We also discuss the motivation for, design and execution of, and results from our courses. Keywords: E-commerce, information technology, capstone project, studio -style learning 1. MOTIVATION E-commerce degrees and Computer Science/Information Technology specializations in e-commerce...
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