...(King 2006). Gibbs (1988) noted that in recent years reflective practice has been embraced by professionals such as nurses, social workers and teachers. He said the process of reflection provides a systematic way of describing how a learner’s performance grows in complexity when mastering academic tasks. This work will employ a reflective model to analyze the therapeutic engagement with one of the patient that I was involved with. The central theme of this assignment is to explain the condition of a client who was admitted to the ward via accident and emergency department. For the purpose of this essay the patient will be referred to as Mrs. X. The pseudo name is given in accordance with the confidentiality and privacy code NMC (2004). Mrs. X has a condition of schizophrenia (a condition of mental health) because she had not complied with her prescribed medication. I selected this patient for my reflective essay because of the insight that my interaction with her gave me. In my encounter with Mrs. X, I had to administer medication on her by intramuscular depot (Injection). I decided to reflect upon this patient and the nursing procedure carried out on her because it was my first time to administer an injection on a patient. To assist me in the process of reflection, I will be comparing different theories of reflection and I will choose the one that is suitable and applicable to the level of my learning. Reflective practice can be traced back to the work of Dewey (1933)...
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...paper about the class along with a digital presentation. In this reflective essay, I will discuss about what three big ideas this semester that impacted me the most, how my personal philosophy has changed throughout this course, and ideas/facts I learned this semester that surprised me. First, I will discuss about one of the three big ideas this semester that has impacted me the most. One big idea this semester that has impacted me the most I believe is learning about multiple intelligences. In this class, I learned in chapter 10, that american psychologist Howard Gardner came up with eight unique and independent types of intelligences that...
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...To the reader, I bet you are wondering what this is all about, or perhaps who I even am. Let us start with a greeting, shall we? Hi, I’m Celina Gonzales, a college freshman taking up BS Legal Management. This E-portfolio encapsulates my entire writing journey of sorts in my ENGLCOM (Basic Communication and Study Skills) course throughout the second term of my first year in university. In here, you will be able to read about various ideas—from the meaning of the word “infinite” beyond the concept taught to us in our Math classes, to the causes of the Philippines’ lagged progress (no, it is not solely due to corruption), and, well, Korean Pop. With all these topics mentioned, I hope you appreciate how much I have grown in terms of flexibility, as I was never comfortable with writing beyond my interests. The entire journey was a roller coaster, thanks to the great deal of papers that came with strict deadlines, high standards, along with numerous revisions inked in either pink, green, red, or blue. However, I believe that all those days figuring out how exactly my professors want me to revise parts of my papers and whatnot are worth it—The innumerable scratch papers that I was armed with in the beginning of the term are gone. I can now write an article of great quality without having to frantically jot down my ideas on a separate sheet of paper. I believe that this growth of mine is impossible without my professors. Therefore, I would like to extend my gratitude to them: To...
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...| 2012 | | MGMT 110 – Reflective EssayAmanda Brown | [Conflict mANAGEMENT] | This essay critiques six journals that have both positive and negative views on Conflict Management. The topic surrounding the essay is that conflict management is a vital tool for managers to have. | Effective conflict management is a vital skill for managers to promote long term progress and stability of an organisation. Conflict is defined as the “process that begins when one party perceives that another party has negatively affected something the first party cares about” (Di Costa, 2011, p42). Conflict management is the process of handling or dealing with the conflict when it arises. There are many different sources of conflict and it comes in many different forms, but the consequences of conflict on workers is generally the same. Over the past few years many strategies and preventions have been developed, this is seen in the five modes of dealing with conflict in the workplace. Culture plays a big part in conflict, resulting in both positive and negative responses to conflict from both individuals and teams as a whole. A number of parties argue that conflict management is not needed or wanted within the workplace, these debates arise for a number of reasons. Workplaces may be shaped by the unique aspects of the environment and when this environment is altered or affected conflict can be the eventuating result. The report “Sources of Conflict within Organisations and the Methods of...
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...than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. There are over 30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During the next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week. —Sir John Daniel, 1996 T By John seely Brown and Richard P. adler he world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikier”: the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness.2 A key part of any such ecosystem is a well-educated workforce with the requisite competitive skills. And in a rapidly changing world, these ecosystems must not only supply this workforce but also provide support for continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills. John Seely Brown is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and Independent Co-Chairman of a New Deloitte Research Center. He is the former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Many of his publications and presentations are on his website (http://www.johnseelybrown...
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...International Table of Contents Introduction Market Analysis Market Segmentation Product Positioning Impact on the Consumer Consumer Decision Process Marketing Mix Market Plan Assesment Introduction It’s a competitive world out there! Having a business and understanding the ways to market and advertise to your consumers. What ideas should companies come up with to help or guide consumers into buying their product? Heineken International is one of the world’s most recognized brewers; their brand is therefore associated with socialization and having fun. In the face of changing beverage consumption, advertising restrictions, and a blurring of its positioning among self-owned and competing beverage labels, Heineken’s marketers decided to use the company’s strong brand equity to expand into adjacent markets and provide consumers with new ways to interact with the brand. The research paper will look at ways Heineken International has grasped the sales and marketing concept, with production, competitive pricing, target marketing and market segmentation. Heineken Market Analysis: Company- Beers and Lagers, that’s what Heineken specializes in. Founded in 1864 by Gerald Adrian Heineken, it’s a Dutch based company that now owns over 125 brewers in more than 70 countries. It brews and sells more than 170 international premium, regional local and specialty beers, including Tiger Beer, Zagorka, Star, Starbrno and Heineken Pilsner. It was after World War 1 , that...
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...U.S. History and Constitution HIS120 Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) At the end of the course, students will be able to: SLO1. Describe the cultural, geographic and climatic influences on Native American societies. SLO2. Compare and contrast religious, social and cultural differences among the major European settlers. SLO3. Describe the events that helped create American nationalism and lead to the American Revolution. SLO4. Explain the Constitutional Convention, the Articles of Confederation, and the emergence of a democratic nation. SLO5. Explain the U.S. Constitution as it related to the separation of powers, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, and the major principles of democracy. SLO6. Evaluate the Jeffersonian dream of expansion and its effect on Native Americans SLO7. Describe Jacksonian democracy and the creation of a two party system SLO8. Explain slavery and associated issues that led to the Civil War and its aftermath. Module Titles Module 1—Early American exploration and colonization (SLO1) Module 2—British colonies (SLO2) Module 3—Road to the Revolution and the American Revolution (SLO3) Module 4—Early Republic (SLO4 and SLO5) Module 5—Jacksonian America (SLO 6 and SLO7) Module 6—Road to the Civil War (SLO8) Module 7—Civil War (SLO8) Module 8—Shaping American history: Signature Assignment (all SLOs) Module 1 Early Exploration and Contact with Native Americans Welcome to HIS 120: U.S....
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...Critically evaluate a recent organisational change within your Foundation trust using change theories and draw out the lessons for you as a leader and your organisation. The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate a recent change within my team, drawing on theories and models of change. I will then integrate theory with practice by using the models that apply to the change within my team. I will also demonstrate the awareness to leadership issues inherent there in. Finally I will demonstrate the use of reflection during the process of change to draw out lessons for me and my organisation. Must there be a change? Change is a common thread that runs through all aspects of life; it said that organisation that handles change successfully thrives whilst those that do not may struggle to survive (Mabey and Mayon-White, 2003).They further suggest that the success or failure of a change varies enormously, depending on the nature of the business, the change and the people involved. A crucial factor of the above is, how far people within a change process understands the change (Connor et al, 2003).Bourne and Bourne (2002) express that change, can be external through technological development, social, political and economic pressure. Or internal as management responds, to a range of issues such as changing client needs as in the case of my team. Change can be classified into number of categories depending on the extent of the change it could be organic (bottom up) or driven...
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...Essays on Service Improvisation Competence: Empirical Evidence from The Hospitality Industry A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Management by Enrico Secchi August 2012 Accepted by: Dr. Aleda V. Roth, Committee Chair Dr. Thomas A. Mroz Dr. Gulru Ozkan Dr. Rohit Verma Abstract This dissertation explores the service design antecedents and the performance outcomes of Service Improvisation Competence (Serv–IC)—the ability of service employees to deviate from established processes and routines in order to timely respond to unexpected events, using available resources. Service operations and strategy research have strongly highlighted the importance of possessing flexibility in order to face the uncertainty derived from the interaction with the external environment (Tansik and Chase 1988, Eisenhardt and Tabrizi 1995, Brown and Eisenhardt 1998, Frei et al. 1999, Menor et al. 2001, Frei 2006). An important component of the ability of service firms to adapt to customer requests, expectations, and needs rests in the systemic ability of frontline employees to creatively adapt to the challenges posed by the constant struggle to satisfy customers. This dissertation is composed of three essays. In Essay 1, we build the theoretical framework necessary to advance a theory of Service Improvisation Competence, and we propose a nomological network that links service delivery...
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...organization member behaviour can be affect by many factors, yet values have long been considered important to explain action in and around organization (Schwartz,1992; Potocan & Nedelko, 2011). In this essay mainly focus on how personal value as a vital diver of working and behaviour. Different person may have different value that leads different thought, attitude and behaviour, whereas understand how value drive a personal behaviour is not only important for a manager but affect the organizational behaviour as well (Collins & Porras, 2002). Therefore, the discussion will emphasize how personal values adjust into a group or an organization; and how personal values influence the organization behaviour. Besides, the discussion will go through the influence of personality to give further discussion on how an individual fit into an organization. The Hofstede’s Cultural Framework and The Big Five Personality Model will be used to explain how value and personality drive individual behaviour. 2.0 Discussion 2.1 Values Values represent a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite mode of conduct or end-state of existence (Robbins & Judge, 2013). Value is a conception, explicit or implicit, that defines what individual or a group regards as desirable (Rue & Byars,...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...Chapter 01 Taking Risks and Making Profits within the Dynamic Business Environment TEST PLANNING TABLE FOR CHAPTER 1 |Learning Goal | | | | | |LL:1 |LL:2 |LL:3 | | |Knows Basic Terms and Facts |Understands Concepts and |Applies Principles | | | |Principles | | |Describe the relationship between profit |1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, |25,26,27,28,29,30,31, |34,35,36,37,38,39, | |and risk and show how businesses and |11,12,13,14,15,16,17 |32,33, |40,41,42,43, | |nonprofit organizations can raise the |18,19,20,21,22,23,24, |188,189,190,191,192,193,194,19|198,199,200,201, | |standard of living for all. |176,177,178,179,180,181,182,1|5,196,197 |202,203,204, | | |83,184,185,186,187 | |221, 326, 330 | |Compare and contrast being an entrepreneur|44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53|57,58,59, |60,61,62, | |and working for others. ...
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...HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Lauren Starkey ® NEW YORK Copyright © 2004 LearningExpress All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Learning Express, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Starkey, Lauren B., 1962– How to write great essays / Lauren Starkey. —1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-521-X 1. English language—Rhetoric—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Essay—Authorship—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. Report writing—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. PE1471.S83 2004 808'.042—dc22 2004003384 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition ISBN 1-57685-521-X For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vii Organization 1 Clarity 11 Word Choice 21 Mechanics 39 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading 55 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 67 Timed Essay Writing Strategies 85 Sample Essay Prompts and Essays 97 Resources 111 CONTENTS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS v Introduction n your preparations for college, you may find yourself facing a handful of high-stakes essays. Your college application requires at least one, and the SAT requires another. Depending upon the high...
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...literacy activities (although they are not referring to Facebook specifically): “From teachers’ perspectives, all of these presumably pleasurable experiences with multimedia detract from students’ engagement with their real work. Within the classroom economy technology work is time off task; it is classified as a sort of leisure recreational activity.” This dichotomy can be broken down, though; students’ enthusiasm for and immersion in these nonacademic literacies can be used to complement their learning of critical inquiry and traditional academic concepts like rhetorical analysis. Although they read these texts daily, they are often unaware of the sophisticated rhetorical analysis they employ while browsing others’ profiles (or as they decide what to add to or delete from their own page). Engaging students in a rhetorical analysis of Facebook can take advantage of this high-interest area — where most students are already rhetorically savvy but unaware of their critical processes — to teach the often...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT................................................................................................................... Page 2 INTRODUCTION: PURPOSES, PARAMETERS AND CONTEXT..........................Page 3 CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE.....................................................................Page 7 SCOPE, SAMPLE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATION........................................... Page 15 CRITICAL REFLECTION ON OWN RESEARCH FINDINGS.....................................................................................................................Page 17 MY CHANGE INITIATIVE.........................................................................................Page 28 REFERENCES...............................................................................................................Page 44 ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a small scale enquiry and the change initiative based on the findings and outcomes of leading a change initiative in a secondary school in the South East of England. The paper evaluates the impact of a change theory on teaching and learning and it assesses the implications of new knowledge on practices and performances of students in Religious Education. The focus of change is on the utilisation of planning strategies to promote interest in learning and the adaptation of critical thinking tools for the purpose of engaging the students in learning. A critical evaluation of the impact of effective...
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