...Final Project In Jennifer’s case there are several different factors that would be considered stressors in her life. Some of her daily hassles include her one-hour commute to and from work, housework that needs to be completed, a demanding work schedule, and her responsibilities to her employees. Her health is another daily stressor that she has to deal with since she feels as if she is sick, yet her doctor was unable to find anything wrong, and I am sure she is constantly worrying about her father and his wellbeing. This is a large amount for one person to handle even without mentioning that she is still in grieving concerning her mother and unborn child. Her husband’s parents seem like very loving individuals, but they are pressuring Jennifer into trying for another baby before she has properly grieved over her miscarriage and properly handled the situation with her father’s healthcare needs. All the major stressors aside, housework and her daily commute are just things that have to been complete. Jennifer’s health problems are obviously manifestations of her unresolved issues and the amount of stress that she is under; this is what is known as general adaption syndrome (GAS). Her headaches, backaches, and indigestion could be signs that she is currently in the alarm stage of GAS. This is how her body is dealing with the sudden changes in her life, and if she remains in a prolonged stressful state her body will begin to shutdown. It is a good sign that she is not experiences...
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...Case Study #1 Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistant married to Antonio, an Italian engineer, whom Jennifer met four years earlier while on a business trip for her marketing company. The couple now lives in Nebraska, where Antonio works for the county's transportation department and Jennifer commutes an hour each way to her marketing office. They have been trying to start a family for over a year. Eight months ago, Jennifer miscarried in her second month of pregnancy. Antonio's parents love Jennifer and often ask her if she is expecting again, hoping to encourage her to focus on her next baby. Jennifer's mother passed away two years ago and her father's health is rapidly deteriorating. Jennifer faces the probability of placing her father in a skilled nursing care facility within the next few months, against his wishes. At work, Jennifer runs a tight ship. She is organized and prepares lists to assure that everything is done according to schedule. Everyone counts on Jennifer and she takes pride in never letting people down. Jennifer has visited her physician numerous times in the last six months, complaining of headaches, backaches, and indigestion. Jennifer insists that she is happy and is not feeling stressed, yet she finds herself making more mistakes at work, unable to keep up with housework, and feeling tired and overwhelmed; she has begun to question her effectiveness as an employee, wife, daughter, and potential mother. Her pains seem to be increasing...
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...since it allows them to become whoever they want. They target both girls and boys of all ages. "Child predators are migrating from traditional methods to alternate media," says Detective Lt. Thomas Kish of the Michigan State Police. "They are going to places where children are.” (Wendy, K) Many children are not aware of these dangers. Online predators are good manipulators, they look for children that are emotionally vulnerable. They use issues the child may have to befriend and empathize with them while building a false friendship and trust. Since many naïve children list personal information online , it is easy for predators to find information about their victims. Some examples of information that should be kept private are schools attended, phone numbers, home addresses, first and last names. Children need to be guarded from online predators. Both parents and children have to be made more aware of online predators and how to avoid them. Parents can set limitations to how and when a child plays on online “the Xbox has password-protected "family settings" that allow parents to turn off Internet access or track content and contacts. PlayStation and Wii also have such controls.”(Wendy,K.) In the case of sixteen year old Jennifer it is plain to see that she is the only victim in this situation. The subject of the original cyber sting is guilt of a crime. Despite the fact that Jennifer was a “willing” participant, by law she cannot consent and therefore is not a willing participant...
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...Executive Summary A request for a proposal was set by Jennifer Childs, Manager of a mid-size pharmaceutical company, to her three General Managers to propose on the reinvestment of an additional profit of $2,000,000 into the company. She has strained that the proposal should lead to a reduction of cost to the company and or increase in sales. The money would be allocated to one or more of the affected areas. Proposed areas to improve on are: * The Product development department needs upgrading in more laboratory equipment and scientists but the costs involved could absorbed the whole profit amount * Production department needs to be restructured by using employee teams. This could be a good idea, the reasons are as follows: * Suggestions made by employees could be implemented * Cost not too much if work spread over a period of time The only problem we foresee is that Tyler should convinced Jennifer as the things that her father built, weigh up very high for her. * Operational department needs upgrading. Computer equipment can`t handle the volume of transactions – this would require buying new software but this could led to a loss of disruption to the legacy system. It would be suggested that this project being breakdown into phases. * A proposal was made by the Marketing manager to increase his budget to employ more sales representatives, rather than allocating funds to projects as he believe that this will increase sales. What needs to be taken...
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...Case Studies Susan Rodgers PSY/210 Axia College Case Study: Jennifer is a 29 year old administrative assistant married to Antonio, and Italian engineer, whom Jennifer met four years earlier on a business trip for her marketing company. The couple now lives in Nebraska, where Antonio works for the county’s transportation department and Jennifer commutes an hour each way to her marketing office. They have been trying to start a family for over a year. Eight months ago, Jennifer miscarried in her second month of pregnancy. Antonio’s parents love Jennifer and often ask if she is expecting again, hoping to encourage her to focus on her next baby. Jennifer’s mother passed away two years ago and her father’s health is rapidly deteriorating. Jennifer faces the probability of placing her father in a skilled nursing care facility with the next few months, against his wishes. At work, Jennifer runs a tight ship. She is organized and prepares lists to assure that everything is done according to schedule. Everyone counts on Jennifer and she takes pride in never letting people down. Jennifer has visited her physician numerous times in the last six months, complaining of headaches, backaches, and indigestion. Jennifer insists that she is happy and is not feeling stressed, yet she finds herself making more mistakes at work, unable to keep up with housework, and feeling tired and overwhelmed; she has begun to question her effectiveness as an employee, wife...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOSSARY OF TERMS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SITUATION ANALYSIS (PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES) 3. IDENTIFICATION OF THE MAIN PROBLEM 4. MAIN BODY 4.1 QUESTION 1 4.2 QUESTION 2 4.3 QUESTION 3 5. CONCLUSION 6. RECOMMENDATIONS 7. LESSONS LEARNT 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The mandate is to analyse this case study about a Midsize pharmaceutical company under the leadership of Jennifer Childs (Owner and CEO). The company has sales offices or manufacturing plants in eight countries and the Chief executive officer would like to reinvest the anticipated profit of $2,000,000. Every business needs to have a baseline plan Introduction (repeat topic of case study) Company background Identification of main problem Methodology Solution Conclusion and recommendations 1. INTRODUCTION The mandate is to analyse this case study about a Midsize pharmaceutical company under the leadership of Jennifer Childs (Owner and CEO). The company has sales offices or manufacturing plants in eight countries. At the October staff meeting the CEO asked three manager to develop a prioritized list of potential projects and to meet with her to sell on their ideas. According to the CEO company profits for the year are expected to be more than 2m$ more than anticipated, the CEO tell them she would like to reinvest this additional project by funding project within the company, that will either increase...
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...Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Problems and Causes 4 Question 1 4 Question 2: 5 Question 3: 6 Conclusions: 8 Prioritised Recommendations 8 Final Recommendations (General Lessons Learnt) 8 Introduction The mandate of Syndicate study group Joburg South is to analyse this case study about a Midsize pharmaceutical company under the leadership of Jennifer Childs (Owner and CEO). The company has sales offices or manufacturing plants in eight countries. At the October staff meeting the CEO asked three manager to develop a prioritized list of potential projects and to meet with her to sell on their ideas. According to the CEO company profits for the year are expected to be more than 2m$ more than anticipated, the CEO tell them she would like to reinvest this additional project by funding project within the company, that will either increase sales or reduce costs. Further the instructions is that the managers must not assume that the funds will be divided equally amongst the three of them. The CEO further states that she is willing to put all the funds on one project if it seems appropriate. The company has the following key personnel: Julie Chen Manager product development and he has a team of scientists working on a new prescription drug. Tyler Ripken is employed as a manager production at the firm’s largest and oldest manufacturing facility and has been with the company for only 6 months Jeff Mathews Manager operations is...
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...Disease Amy Blanchard, Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson, and David Dosser East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Little is known about the experience among adult children who have a parent with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The purpose of this study was to explore, appreciate, and describe their experiences using a phenomenological methodology. Narratives were collected from seven participants who have a parent diagnosed with PD and analyzed according to Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenological data analysis method. Seven thematic clusters were identified and an exhaustive description is presented to summarize the essence of their lived experience. The study indicates a strong sense of essential positivism from the participants’ stories, and overall, it seems PD has brought some degree of biological, psychological, socially, and/or spiritual meaning to their lives that they may not have otherwise noticed or experienced. Key Words: Parkinson’s Disease, Phenomenology, Biopsychosocial-spiritual, Adult, Children and Illness Introduction “The bond between mother and child is so deeply rooted in our emotions that we fear to discuss openly anything that threatens the bond” – Glenna Atwood (1991) Establishing links between chronic illnesses and family impact are not novel (e.g., Cooke, McNally, Mulligan, Harrison, & Newman, 2001; Kielcolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001, Martire, Lustig, Schultz, Miller, & Helgeson, 2004). However, much of the attention to study inclusion of a family caregiver...
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...the United States of America is also struggling with the difficulties regarding social mobility. The American dream is that the poorest suburban person can be a rich person too and America is the home and land of unlimited possibilities. The main idea is that if you work hard enough you can make it to the top. Is it true for everyone? Can women make it to the top? But before I start my essay on Women’s Social Mobility in the United States of America let me clarity certain definitions. The concept of social mobility has two main meanings: a) in the narrow sense, represents the moving in a stratification system, b) broadly refers to the space movement (territorial mobility) and / or change of employment (or mobility fluctuation labor). Studies (theoretical and empirical) say that social mobility can be placed in three categories: - those using a hierarchy criteria, tracking movements between strictly hierarchical layers. It’s the American tradition, which uses the social status as a hierarchical criteria. - those who use as a classification criteria exclusively the individual’s occupation, this leading to the establishment of a social space consisting some number of socio-professional categories: tradition - those using as a criteria social classes and social strata. Here fall particularly Marxist researchers. In other words social mobility can be: - horizontal mobility when moving within the same status category - vertical mobility when moving from one social level to another...
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...CASE STUDY 1 A Midsize Pharmaceutical Company Gido, Jack; Clements, James P. (2014-02-05). Successful Project Management (Page 58/59). Cengage Learning. Kindle Edition Jennifer Childs is the owner and chief executive officer of a midsize global pharmaceutical company with sales offices or manufacturing plants in eight countries. At an October staff meeting she tells her managers that company profits for the year are expected to be $2,000,000 more than anticipated. She tells them she would like to reinvest this additional profit by funding projects within the company that will either increase sales or reduce costs. She asks her three key managers to get together to develop a prioritized list of potential projects and then to meet with her to“sell”her on their ideas. She mentions that they should not assume the funds will be divided equally among the three of them. She also mentions that she is willing to put all of the funds into just one project if it seems appropriate. Julie Chen, manager of product development, has had a team of scientists working on a new prescription drug. This effort has been taking much longer than expected. She is worried that larger firms are working on a similar prescription drug and that these firms might get it to the marketplace first. Her team has not made any major breakthroughs yet, and some tests are not producing the expected results. She knows this is a risky project but feels that she cannot stop it now. Julie believes the company’s long-term...
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... Nature versus Nurture Jennifer Taylor Western Governors University GLT1 task 3 Nature versus Nurture What is Nature versus Nurture? Nature versus Nurture is one of the oldest debates in psychology. It centers around the influence of inherited genes and environmental factors on the human development. Nature is those things inherited such as eye color, hair color, certain diseases, etc. Nurture is all the environmental influences after conception which influences development such as carcinogens, language, behaviors, etc. Some philosophers believe most of our characteristics and behaviors are as a result of inherited genes. Those who believe in extreme hereditary influences are known as Nativist. However, others believe the mind is born as a blank slate and we are who we are because of our experiences and are learned behaviors. Those who believe strongly in environmental influences are known as empiricists. (McLeod, 2007) Why has this debate become so controversial? According to McLeod, 2007 this debate has become heated because it begins a way of evaluating behavioral differences in society which then becomes a political debate about distributive justice and power in society. Many in psychology have come to the realization it is not an all or nothing view. Therefore, the debate has become one of deciding which one is most important. Leaving the question of if both factors influence our development which one is more responsible? Case Study A The Italian National Institute...
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...Jennifer Jenkins believes that “a life sentence still allows a great deal of living to be done...” (12). Sitting more than 80 percent of your life behind bars does not allow as much living as learning from your mistakes and turning your life around. Juveniles need to be given this opportunity to eventually make their way out of the prison system, even if that means spending a part of their life in jail. They deserve guidance and rehabilitation from their thoughts and actions that made them commit the crime nonetheless. It is a lot more reasonable than making adolescents sit in the same prison facility doing nothing their entire...
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... CRJ 1800 Single Family Homes, the Causes of all Evil? When carefully studying youth delinquency the easiest thing to do is group all delinquent youths under one common denominator. Unfortunately for Jennifer Roback, it is impossible to find a common link that truly is a route cause because there are always too many other variables at play that may or may not be full known to the researcher. To suggest that living with a single parent, or in the case of this article, a single mother; those children raised in such households have very little chance at living inside the constitutes of the law. While it may seem that the previous wording used here is strong, the point she is making is that single mother families do not work and that children with absent fathers are doomed to be criminals, or at least have almost no chance to be a productive member of society. While there are countless examples of people you and I both know people that are well adjusted, successful individuals raised in single mother households, the slant on this article is so strongly negative that it would seem the very thought of associating with such people could be a detriment on ourselves. In fact, taking this article as cold hard fact, could transform all ideas about development as a child in general for instance; Roback states that, “The basic self-control and reciprocity that a free society takes for granted do not develop automatically. Conscience development takes place in childhood. Children...
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...Land Medical Center , 2013). Peppermint, a popular plant in Europe that has herbal properties to aid in many health ailments, is widely characterized as a popular flavoring for gum, toothpaste, and tea. It is the oil from the leaves and flowering tops of the peppermint plant that are used in various herbal remedies (Wurges Jennifer, 2005). An herbal remedy is defined as the use of plants for medical purposes (Wurges Jennifer, 2005). Peppermint oil acts as a muscle relaxant and was traditionally used to treat digestive symptoms in Ancient Egypt. The oil continues to be used for various health ailments including nausea, indigestion, cold symptoms, headaches, muscle and nerve pain, stomach problems, and bowel conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (Foster, 2012).The Menthyl is the ingredient that gives peppermints its minty flavoring and aroma while Menthol is the main component in peppermint that provides a cooling sensation. The Peppermint plant grows to about 2 - 3 feet tall and blooms from July through August, sprouting tiny purple flowers. Peppermint is native to Europe and Asia and grows wild in moist, temperate areas (Wurges Jennifer, 2005). The peppermint plant is used primarily for its oil which is extracted from the leaves. The quality of the peppermint oil depends on the climate, habitat and where the peppermint is grown. The peppermint oil is harvested when the oil content is highest. When the peppermint oil...
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...Unit 2 Need identification The Bank of Boston Official from the Bank of Boston recently discuss how the firm create a effective, all encompassing request for proposal. Kevin Roden, director of consumer banking system, George Swick, project manager of retail workstation infrastructure, indicate that their focus is on business requirements. They conduct a cost-benefit analysis and examine available products and services only after they ensure that a project will meet business requirements. If the project does not directly support the business, it is not pursued. The Bank of Boston had a goal: improve sale and customer service and increase the range of products, such as mutual funds and small business loans, in the bank’s branches. Given their resources and availability resources, they found that it would be more cost effective to outsource much of the work. So they developed two comprehensive requests for proposal (RFPs). The first was for procurement, and installation of the system. The second was for support and maintenance. There were 11 responses to the two RFPs, which were reviewed by more than twenty of various technology and business committees within the bank. IBM and Anderson Consulting were chosen to help with the procurement, deployment, and installation, and IBM was chosen to help with the support and maintenance. The Bank of Boston Branches will be getting a complete facelift: new client/server-based local area net works, new customer service and sales applications...
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