...This essay will describe the concept of managerial decision-making. It will look specifically at the ‘Rational Decision-Making Model’, exploring the shortcomings of this approach, and will suggest possible ways a manager could overcome these issues when striving to make a rational decision that will bring benefit to an organisation. Throughout this essay, empirical research and examples from academic literature will be presented to illustrate the discussion. Decision-making is arguably the single most important process in an organisation, being a basic task at all managerial levels. (Heraclious 1994) Rational Decision Making can be defined as choices that are consistent and value maximising within specified constraints. (Bergman, Coulter, Robbins & Stagg 2008) The ‘Rational Decision-Making Model’ is a structured process for essentially making a logically sound decision. The model is made up of a series of steps, with the details often varying, but generally including; recognition of the decision requirement, diagnosis and analysis of causes, development of alternatives, selection of alternative, implementation, evaluation and feedback. (Heraclious 1994) A person making a rational decision would be logical, fully objective, and would strive to select an alternative that maximises the likelihood of achieving their goal. (Bergman, Coulter, Robbins & Stagg 2008) There are a number of issues surrounding the effectiveness of the model for rational decision-making, and...
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...A Summary of and Reaction to “Turning Goys into Girls” by Michelle Cottle In Michelle Cottle’s essay “Turning Goys into Girls” (published May, 1998), Cottle describes how men’s magazines and other factors are increasing the male beauty standard to the towering, unrealistic female standard and the male beauty standard’s effect on gender equality. Men are buying more and doing more to meet the new standard for physical appearance because marketers have almost capped the women consumer market, so men are the new target. Cottle understands that reason women and men are compelled to do what they can to look good is rooted in companies creating imaginary consumer needs, and insecurities so the companies can make money, yet she embraces the gender politics of the situation: men are being targeted and falling into the same trap beauty standard trap....
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...suffers from malnutrition. This means that out of 7 billion people in the world, 870 million are still underfed. In Jonathan Swift’s “Modern Proposal” essay, he snubs the Irish and English rulers for their economic policies concerning the poor. Swift explains that they are not dealing with the issue of poverty in Ireland by refusing to create a solution. Citizens and those in power need to create lasting solutions to end poverty in our nation. Jonathan Swift essay, “Modern Proposal” presents solutions to keep poor children from being a burden to their families. The English government turned their heads to the deplorable economic conditions in which the people were living in and he hated the inhumanity that he witnessed. Ireland was in dire poverty and most of the victims were women and children that were beggars (630-631). So Swift devised a number of proposal and solutions to rid Ireland of this problem. Swifts argues that poor children would be better off being eaten as food rather than wondering the streets of Ireland begging. According to Swift, “A young healthy well nursed child would make nourishing and wholesome food.” For example, he explains that a child can make two servings as entertainment for friends and claims that their skins would make good boots (632-634). I must admit that these suggestions do sound unrealistic because, I...
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...Amanuel Abebe ENGL 102 Prof. LeBlanc 02/07/15 Rhetorical Analysis Outline I. Introduction A. In his new York times essay “where sweatshops are dream” writer Nicholas D. Kristof makes a number of points regarding what he sees as an adverse effect of labor standards compliance on the economic development of low-income countries that we feel require some clarification and comment. B. Purpose of argument: His purpose in this essay is to let people know that sweatshops can help people. C. Audience: Kristof assumes his readers are Americans that are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid barely legal workers in dangerous factories. II. Thesis: By establishing his credibility, building his case slowly, and appealing to both logic and emotions, Kristof succeeds in writing effective argument . III. Body paragraph 1: pathos A. He appeals to pathos by using words or images designed to move readers and appeal to the readers emotion. B. List examples you might use: “The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.” “Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.” C. Explanation: why or how is the example you provided effective or not Throughout this short essay, Kristof uses emotionally loaded language and his arguments include vivid descriptions or striking examples intended to appeal to reader’s emotion. IV. Body paragraph 2: ethos A. Topic sentence As a columnist...
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...2014 Unit 4 Final Argumentative Essay Feminine Beauty vs. Masculine The Other Side of Double Standards: a Normative Critique It’s everywhere. It’s on television, in movies, in magazines, on billboards, in social media. Everywhere a person looks they find the objectification of women, the socially unacceptable unrealistic standards for women, and the so-called “fat-shaming” of the female gender. However, all people know the argument against such sexist conduct. People dispute the issue over Facebook, blog journals, and even scholarly articles. Dove, the huge lotion, body wash, and shampoo conglomerate has their own “Love Your Body Campaign” which features average women in their ads. Now, this is fantastic that females can battle against how they are represented in media, but most people never consider that the same exact thing happens to men. Amanda Marcotte from Slate.com shows how the double standard is prominent with an example from a response to one of her articles about a relationship. Oh, and there’s a new thought: a double standard with the males on the downside? I don’t think many people have really considered or even heard one of those before. A more known topic is the pressuring of children of both genders into traditional gender roles. Many people admonish the pressuring of girls into their roles, but pressuring boys is also a problem. Paul Theroux talks of this in his essay “Being a Man.” Media makes men out to be just as unrealistic as it does women, and this is also...
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...women display in films and on subway advertising boards are striking poses with little clothes on. Moreover, every image showed is airbrushed with Photoshop. Women are exposed with images produced by the media on what is considered to be the ideal face and body. The way media portray feminine beauty today changes the publics’ standard on feminine beauty and even how females view themselves. This essay will explain the impact of media in feminine beauty and how they portray it to women. Feminine beauty in the past and today There are a thousand definitions of feminine beauty Way back in the mid-nineteenth century, the ideal feminine beauty was reflected by sculptors’ pieces, the women’s nose and forehead run in a line which is indented by only a hair’s breath, the upper lip is very short, the ear is far back (Clark, 1980). The standard apply to one of the most famous figures, the Venus of Milo and many more. During the 1920’s, women aimed to hide their curves and wore bold make-up. And in the 1950’s, Marilyn Monroe and her hourglass figure were considered as the feminine ideal. As time goes by, people’s definitions of feminine beauty alter along. The standard is based on people’s cultural background and life experience. Beauty is certain a magnet for the cultural anxieties of our day: the adjustment of gender roles, the commodification of the body in consumer culture, the genetic and evolutionary discoveries changing our understanding of human nature (Steiner, 2001). Today...
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...Cause and Effect Essay - Cause of Low Standard of Education in the Philippines Education is a privilege that most Filipinos have. Being able to attend a prestigious school can be beneficial for our future. It can have many different implications in our lives, especially when we are looking for a job. Most of the time, companies look for graduate students who have degrees in specific areas to work for them. But there are times wherein some Filipinos cannot find a good job because they do not have college degrees. Bearing this in mind, this essay will explain further the causes of low standard of education in the Philippines, which are due to child labor, lack of teachers, and the poor allocation of the government to educational funds. The first reason why the standard of education in the Philippines is low is because of child labor. It was found in previous studies that around sixteen percent of children ages five to seventeen are already working (“Child Labor in the Philippines”). Children are forced by their parents to work at a very young age without thinking twice if this may affect the future of their children. They tend to force their children to work just to earn money and to be able to buy their necessities. According to the article “Child Labor in the Philippines”, most children are working in various sectors and occupations. This includes working in plantations or working as a domestic servant. As a result, children spend most of their time earning a living instead...
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...the essay should identify and justify your selection of 2 components of the COSO framework that were most violated in the rogue trader movie In Rogue Trader movie Nick Leeson makes unauthorized trades and covers up losses which are sufficient to bankrupt Barings bank. While management thinks that Nick brings large profits to the bank, Nick hides losses under fake error account which people think belongs to a customer. Leeson is able to cover up his losses because bank's management allows him to run both the trading floor and the back office facilities. Nick is afraid of management finding out about his first loss and does things such as finding a new client, requesting funding and so on, to hide his losses and show profits. However, Leeson incurred even more losses, which he is not able to hide in the end. It's not Nick Leeson who collapsed Barings, it's Barings' internal controls and standards that were not present or violated and allowed one employee to bankrupt long standing bank. One of the most violated component of the COSO framework is the internal control environment of Barings. When Nick's unethical behavior at the bar got him to jail, management didn't care about his unethical behavior, all they cared about is to get him out of jail because he brings in a lot of profit. No one even sat down and talked to Nick in regards to his actions afterwards. Nick was given a freedom and power to act the way he wanted. Management didn't check or control him. When management...
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...used as an apparatus manipulated through capitalist- consumerism under the guise of attaining ultimate beauty? How has the exoticization and romanticism of beauty products, such as Palmolive soap, result in the products becoming more appealing to female consumers? This essay examines the problematic ideology of Cleopatra as the beautiful queen with the “flawless” complexion used in beauty advertisements of the 1920s addressed towards the post-World War I “modern woman” as a source of sociopolitical embodied power to entice men. This essay also explores concepts of femininity, modernity, and ideals of female beauty that have been constructed through a historically patriarchal framework which involves emphasizing the ‘seductive power’ of women, and revolves around the obsession for preserving a youthful girlish beauty and perpetuating women’s place in the home as the ‘pretty little wife’, in juxtaposition with George Bernard Shaw’s ‘pretty little queen’ caricature of Cleopatra. By invalidating or distorting her power, these expectations and gender based stereotypes impact society today in the same ways by advertising flawless skin with no visible pores or wrinkles as one of the many unrealistic sociocultural standards for females. For thousands of years, Cleopatra has been used as a tool of sexual desire and as a result, women have looked to her as a beauty role model for gaining respect in society, success in romantic relationships, and acceptance in life overall. Purchasing cosmetics...
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...MGT 521 WEEK 5 To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/mgt-521-week-5/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM MGT 521 WEEK 5 Your manager tells you about a new department the company will be adding that is part of the company’s strategic plan to enter a particular market segment. Your manager would like you to manage one of the teams in this new department. Your manager has put together the team you will be managing. Your new team consists of the members of your current Learning Team. To be successful in the new market segment, your team must efficiently accomplish the goals set by the company. Your manager, therefore, would like you to develop a leadership approach for each team member on your team based on the theories of leadership and each member’s individual personalities. Write a memo to your manager of no more than 1,400 words in which you explain how you plan to successfully lead your team. Include the following: Evaluate the individuals, including yourself, based on the personality assessment. Evaluate the situation in terms of urgency, culture, and so forth. Determine leadership approaches, based on individuals and the situation. Highlight the principles you have applied from various leadership theories. Format your memo consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment 2- Your Learning Team is a team of managers of a customer call center for timeshare vacations. Discuss, with...
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...Alicia A. Smith October 29, 2014 Eng.4705/Essay #2 Beauty Complex The word beauty has many negative connotations for African American women. Over the years African American women have been subjected, misrepresented and also dehumanized by the exemplification of beauty and identity. This pattern of internalizing the perception of beauty to coincide with European standards have caused many African American women in the process to alter their physical appearances and personify a culture that has disregarded the uniqueness of being “ black and beautiful”. The cultural aesthetics of being “black and beautiful” has been distorted in literature, movies and television shows to appease an acceptable standard of beauty that in reality is unrealistic....
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...lots of commitment on their part. Checking what’s up on Facebook group or our email perfectly satisfy this purpose. We assume we won’t waste much time on those unrelated things but actually we do. By clicking a link on Facebook page, we are attracted to thousands other links on it. By entering the e-mail box, even if there’s nothing new, we can’t help but start deleting the past spams. Why? We are simply avoiding something that we are not motivated to do. On the other hand, we procrastinators fear making mistakes. We worship perfectionism and it directly leads to procrastination. Oftentimes, procrastination is a sign of fear of making mistakes. We sometimes have extremely high or unrealistic expectations of ourselves that hinder us to undertake tasks. We often put off simple tasks because our standard for completing those tasks are high and beyond reach....
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...Description: Lt. General Sidney Berry, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point has been faced with a series of difficult decisions after being notified of underclassmen at the campus where caught cheating, a violation of the Cadet Honor Code with the Academy. All cadets that are found guilty by the Honor System are subject to expulsion. The decisions Berry is faced with raises issues concerning ethics, organizational adjustment and change, and action planning to tackle the arising conflict. Through acting in the best wishes of West Point’s standards, Lt. General Berry must also heavily consider the interests of the Department of the Army, Congress, West Point alumni, current cadets on campus, and the public with the gaining acknowledgement of the incident. Diagnosis: Throughout the incident, questions arised in a variety of avenues regarding West Point’s standards and the possibility of misalignment of the discipline displayed versus the objectives of the Academy. Questions such as whether the Honor Code was to general to the extent of not being able to evenly and fairly enforce conduct or whether constitutional guarantees of due process were considered during the adjudication of disputes arising under the Honor Code. This incident could also be simply a result of cadets pushing the limits of the Academy of what they are and aren’t able to get away with; much like a child is with his or her parental figures. Nevertheless, the integrity of not...
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...Understanding “The Banking Concept of Education” People learn by different methods of teaching: visual, auditory or tactile. A visual learner favors reading or pictures, an auditory prefers listening and a tactile person learns by a hands on approach. (The Learning Styles) In Freire’s excerpt “The Banking Concept of Education”, he describes how the relationship between students and teachers suffer from narration sickness (Freire). Freire explains in today’s modern education the teacher has become the depositors of information and the students are the bank receiving the information. This essay will explain the meaning of Freire’s excerpt and provide an understanding of his two concepts of education, banking and problem posing. Although auditory is a method of learning, Freire argued how education today is more focused on memorization rather than a two-way street of communication. In order for a car to run, it needs a tank full of gasoline; this same theory can apply to Freire’s theory of “The Banking Concept of Education”. He describes how students have been turned into “containers” to be “filled” by the teacher (Freire). This was evident while attending the Non-Commissioned Officer’s Academy in February 2008. During the 5 week Professional Military Education course, the instructors stood at the front of the classroom the students were exposed to what we termed, “death by PowerPoint”. Each day was filled with instructor narration of material that culminated...
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...the success of the business, two distinct management approaches are scientific management by Fredrick Taylor who saw workers more as robots than people and human relations approach by Elton Mayo who saw his worker more as social people than as robots. In this essay, I would show the differences between management science and human relations. One of the differences between human relations and scientific management is that Human relations are based on motivation, group motivation, leader and most importantly the relationship between the employer and the employee. Mayo saw the workers as human beings and in order for the business to achieve its goals, the business organization must try understanding and respecting the emotions and satisfying of needs of the workers that are not monetary (Khan, 2008). Scientific management is based mostly on workers working at their fullest potential in order to achieve maximum productivity, Taylor saw the workers as machines that are meant to be given instructions on how to perform tasks without considering their human side. Another difference is the use of time and motion studies scientific management method involves time and motion studies which is basically a method of creating a standard for employee productivity through breaking down of task to its easiest form in a manner in which there is no wasted motion while the exact time for each correct movement is being measured to ensure the task is being done in the best possible way (Enock, 2006)...
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