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Ethical Issues Conflicts Of Interest

Pages: 4 (1232 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Essay Document #:89213693

...Culture Ethical Issues
Conflicts of Interest
Conflict of interest emerges when an inividual in power uses their position to exploit situations to their advantage. For instance, if a law firm attempted representing the same couple in a divorce case (Legal Dictionary, 2018). Conflict of interest is a manifestation of structural failures of any society. The practice touches on a wide range of societal elements, including legal, political, and administrative aspects. Once public officers engage in acts of conflict of interest, they lose public trust (Pathranarakul, 2005).
Prosecutors often find themselves in the tight sport of conflict of interest. It is easy to be diverted from the mission to deliver justice when one is a prosecutor because of the ever-conflicting interests, and motivations one is exposed to (Green &Roiphe, 2017). In the case of lawyers, incidents in which personal interest comes into conflict with that of the client amount to a conflict……

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Alterio, E. (2011). From judicial comity to legal comity: A judicial solution to global disorder?I-CON, 9(2), 394-424. doi: 10.1093/icon/mor036

BrainMass. (2019). Correctional officer subculture: Ethics. Retrieved from  https://brainmass.com/law/familylaw/correctional-officer-subculture-ethics-165895 

Filgueiras, F. (2011).Transparência e controle da corrupção no Brasil. In: Corrupção e sistemapolítico no Brasil, edited by Leonardo Avritzer and Fernando Filgueiras. Rio de Janeiro: CivilizaçãoBrasileira.

Kindregan, C. (1975).Conflict of interest and the lawyer in civil practice. Retrieved from  https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr/vol10/iss3/2 

Legal Dictionary. (2018). Conflict of interest. Retrieved from  https://legaldictionary.net/conflict-of-interest/ 

Lilles, H. (2002). Circle sentencing: Part of the restorative justice continuum. IIRP. Retrieved from  https://www.iirp.edu/news/circle-sentencing-part-of-the-restorative-justice-continuum 

Montes, A., Mears, D., &Conchran, J. (2016). The privatization debate: A conceptual framework for improving (public and private) corrections. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 32(4). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305418634_The_Privatization_Debate_A_Conceptual_Framework_for_Improving_Public_and_Private_Corrections

Off, C. (1999). How can we trust our fellow citizens? In: Democracy and trust, edited by Mark Warren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Major Issues Facing The European Union

Pages: 9 (2744 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Essay Document #:70288459

… of the complex nature of the enterprise that the EU has undertaken. It is now attempting to govern nations with very different characteristics, cultures, ambitions, and identities. The sense that one has from watching the EU is that it is not so much about spreading prosperity and ……

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Amadeo, K. (2019). Eurozone debt crisis. Retrieved from  https://www.thebalance.com/eurozone-debt-crisis-causes-cures-and-consequences-3305524 

BBC. (2020). Brexit. Retrieved from  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887 

Chadwick, L. (2020). Recession could tip EU. Retrieved from https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/27/could-covid-19-coronavirus-trigger-a-european-economic-recession

Grose, T. (2020). Coronavirus tests Europe’s open borders. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-03-02/europes-open-border-agreement-may-become-casualty-to-coronavirus

Herszenhorn, D. (2019). Europe’s NATO problem. Retrieved from  https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-nato-problem-defense-procurement-training-research/ 

Pew Research Center. (2016). European opinions of the refugee crisis. Retrieved from  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/16/european-opinions-of-the-refugee-crisis-in-5-charts/ 

Wirtz, B. (2019). The Beginning Of The End Of Open Borders In Europe. Retrieved from  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-open-borders-in-europe/ 

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Motivation In The Workplace

Pages: 3 (1010 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Case Study Document #:53218704

… if the wrong people are hired for the job, productivity is going to suffer. At Acme, the new manager has disrupted the workplace culture by cutting back on one of…[break]…Workers tend to respond positively to logic and when they are educated on the purpose of a goal, … leadership, as this will give them the vision, justification, and motivation to reach productivity goals. The best example for the kind of workplace culture Acme needs to cultivate can be found in Branson’s Virgin Group, where Branson has placed the right people in the right places and ……

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De Vries, M. F. K. (1998). Charisma in action: The transformational abilities of Virgin's Richard Branson and ABB's Percy Barnevik. Organizational Dynamics, 26(3), 7-21.

Gerhart, B., & Fang, M. (2015). Pay, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, performance, and creativity in the workplace: Revisiting long-held beliefs. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 2, 489-521

Kotter, J. P. (2012). Accelerate! Harvard Business Review, 90(11), 44–58.

Mahmood, M. (2015). Strategy, structure, and HRM policy orientation: Employee recruitment and selection practices in multinational subsidiaries. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 53(3), 331-350.

Xirasagar, S. (2008). Transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership among physician executives. Journal of Health organization and management, 22(6), 599-613.

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Catholicism From An Indian Perspective

Pages: 10 (2865 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:56618225

… on (Hofstede Insights). However, some nations are actually quite diverse and are made up of many different smaller states where there are different subcultures within the main culture. India is one such nation in the world. India was really not a united country until the British colonized it and began to … Amalraj family from my brother who works with Pio, the head of the family in an IT company. I selected them because their culture is completely different from mine, as they are both Indian and Catholic. The family was happy to allow me to stay with them … was very accepting and gracious the entire time. I felt they were as interested in getting to know more about me and my culture as I was in getting to know more about them.
Logistics
It was arranged for me to stay the weekend with the Almaraj ……

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Bayly, Susan. Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Hofstede, Geert. Cultures consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.

Hofstede Insights.  https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/ 

Panikkar, K. Asia and Western dominance. London: G. Allen, 1953.

Thurston, Herbert, and Andrew Shipman. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Rosary.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13184b.htm 

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McDonalds Quality And Improving Operations

Pages: 8 (2369 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:59085387

...Culture Quality and Improving Operations
McDonalds Corporation is the leading fast-food restaurant across the globe. Since inception the company has experienced tremendous growth and profitability due to its adoption of sound business philosophies and practices. McDonalds has become a symbol of globalization given its successful expansion to various parts of the globe. The other factor that has contributed to McDonalds’ success and profitability worldwide is its effective operation function. The company has streamlined its operation function from obtaining raw materials to production to distribution of food items/products to its customers. McDonalds Corporation has established a relatively effective operations management framework that helps in handling all its functional areas. In relation to the Operations Management framework, this paper examines quality and improvement of operations at McDonalds Corporation.
Part 1 – Quality and Conformance
McDonalds Corporation operates in an increasingly competitive fast-food industry across the globe. Despite its market share and position, this……

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Crom, S. (n.d.). Managing for Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://www.isixsigma.com/implementation/basics/managing-continuous-and-breakthrough-improvement/ 

Hill, A. & Hill, T. (2011). Essential operations management. New York, NY: Macmillan International Higher Education.

Hu, W. & Xie, Y. (2013, April 28). Comparative Study of McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Development in China. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ab1d/769d45deb5a0e03d147a04cb27fff30e6ae6.pdf 

Ka-Sing, L. (2019, May). Guiding Principles a Recipe for Success. South China Morning Post. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://www.scmp.com/article/1006977/guiding-principles-recipe-success 

Keller, C.R. (2017, September 1). How McDonald’s Became the Leader in the Fast Food Industry. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://profitworks.ca/hidden-blog/541-how-mcdonald-s-became-a-leader-in-fast-food-industry.html 

Mulholland, B. (2018, April 6). What Continuous Improvement Is (and How to Use It). Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://www.process.st/continuous-improvement/ 

Nanyang Consultancy. (2016, January). McDonalds – Charting McDonalds Way Forward. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://mbacasecomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Nanyang_Mcdonalds_Final2.pdf 

Team, T. (2015, October 8). Why is it Important for McDonald’s to Focus on Quality? Forbes. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from  https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/10/08/why-is-it-important-for-mcdonalds-to-focus-on-quality/#1da4aebe2488

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How To Accept Disabled People

Pages: 1 (345 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:69925207

… to the lack of oversight and regulation regarding the disabled community and partly because of the cultural influences of the time. When the culture is insensitive to the needs of others and views a certain type or class or population as sub-human, the result is going to … certain type or class or population as sub-human, the result is going to be abuse. Today, some people still grow up in such cultures, but in general today’s culture is more sensitive to the needs of the under-privileged and marginalized.
However, that is not to say that the disabled are completely integrated … attitudes and treatment of the disabled has improved, thanks to the Civil Rights Act and other laws that have been created since. Our culture has changed to be more accepting of others’ differences and to treat all others fairly.
Still, challenges remain in relation to the acceptance ……

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1L Media. (2013). Lost in Laconia. Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesOm2HTm2I 

 

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Seventh Day Adventist Church

Pages: 3 (1005 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:77181706

...Culture The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination that observes the Sabbath (a holy day of rest) on Saturdays (like Jews) rather than on Sundays (like most other Christians). The group focuses especially on the Second Coming of Christ, which they believed would be imminent and would result in the faithful being taken to the Promised Land. Like other Protestant groups, they hold firm to the idea that Scripture is infallible, that there are Three Divine Persons in the Holy Trinity, and that there will be a resurrection. This paper will discuss the beliefs, hopes, traditions, etc. of the Seventh Day Adventists.
The Church was formed in Maryland in 1800s but it has since become international with over 20 million members worldwide. They have 28 Fundamental Beliefs, which are similar to Trinitarian Protestantism and include belief in justification by faith alone, baptism by immersion, and a literal interpretation……

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Buettner, D. (2005). The Secrets of Long Life. National Geographic, 208(5), 2–27. 

Fraser, G. E. (2003). Diet, life expectancy, and chronic disease: studies of Seventh-Day Adventists and other vegetarians. Oxford University Press.

Leininger, M. (2008). Transcultural nursing: Its importance in nursing practice. Journal of cultural diversity, 15(1), 37-43.

Phillips, R. L. (1975). Role of life-style and dietary habits in risk of cancer among Seventh-Day Adventists. Cancer Research, 35(11 Part 2), 3513-3522.

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Hurricane Maria And Puerto Rico S Emergency Management

Pages: 11 (3177 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:67675163


One of the main reasons for the failure of an adequate emergency plan and response to the Hurricane Maria was simply that the culture in Puerto Rico was not one in which planning and foresight was deemed as particularly essential. The island had never suffered such a … out from under the island and there was little the people could do. It was limited in terms of natural resources and its culture was really one in which the people were more inclined to simply accept their circumstances and roll with the punches, bad as they … political differences, and figure things out. Only those organizations like the ones in the health care community that were informed by a different culture showed any sense of preparedness.
As Samaan and Verneuil (2008) pointed out in their study of Katrina, the spirit of mission is really … which is why the U.S.……

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Acevedo, N. (2018). Puerto Rico lacked disaster planning, communications strategy, hurricane study found. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/puerto-rico-lacked-disaster-planning-communications-strategy-hurricane-study-found-n904866

Achenbach, J. & Hernandez, A. (2017). FEMA administrator: Puerto Rico’s politics, lack of unity, hindering hurricane response. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fema-administrator-puerto-ricos-politics-lack-of-unity-hindering-hurricane-response/2017/10/09/f1711996-ad10-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eef2e6bc0e3e

Amnesty International. (2018). Puerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria. Retrieved from  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/09/puerto-rico-a-year-after-hurricane-maria/ 

Bomey, N. (2017). Hurricane Maria halts crucial drug manufacturing in Puerto Rico, may spur shortages. Retrieved from  https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/22/hurricane-maria-pharmaceutical-industry-puerto-rico/692752001/ 

CDC. (2019). PHEP. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/epf/docs/PuertoRico.pdf de Arzola, O. R. (2018). Emergency Preparedness and Hurricane Maria: The Experience of a Regional Academic Medical Center in Southwest Puerto Rico. Journal of Graduate Medical Education,10(4), 477-480. Florido, A. (2018). Government Lawyer Says Puerto Rico's Hurricane Response Plan 'Does Not Exist'. Retrieved from  https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662345336/government-lawyer-says-puerto-ricos-hurricane-response-plan-does-not-exist 

McMahon, C. (2018). Double down on the Jones Act? Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, 49(2), 153-195.

Samaan, J. L., & Verneuil, L. (2009). Civil–Military Relations in Hurricane Katrina: a case study on crisis management in natural disaster response. Humanitarian Assistance: Improving US-European Cooperation, Center for Transatlantic Relations/Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD/Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, 413-432.

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Coronavirus COVID 19

Pages: 9 (2907 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:604304

… contain and stop the spread of what is now a pandemic, the epidemiology of the disease, and how it has impacted society and culture.

Signs
and Symptoms

One of the more mysterious characteristics of COVID 19 is that one can be a carrier of the coronavirus and … the table.  The outcome of COVID 19 in the US is at this time still unknown.  How the future of American society and culture will be could go multiple ways with a range of outcomes spanning from the dreadful to the optimistic depending on how the country ……

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Chen, N., Zhou, M., Dong, X., Qu, J., Gong, F., Han, Y., ... & Yu, T. (2020).  Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. The Lancet, 395(10223), 507-513.

Kekatos, M. (2020). Ventilating too soon. Retrieved from  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8201783/Some-doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-patients.html 

Myers, S. L. (2020). China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2015). Improving diagnosis in health care. National Academies Press.

Oliver, D. (2020). Coronavirus genetic material stayed on surfaces for up to 17 days on Diamond Princess cruise, CDC says. Retrieved from  https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/24/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cabin-surfaces-contaminated-cdc-report/2905924001/ 

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Israel And United States

Pages: 8 (2543 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Policy Proposal Document #:35099199

...Culture Introduction: the Policy Problem under Consideration
When it comes to foreign policy, there are many different issues in foreign policy that the government needs to address—from tensions regarding missile treaties with Russia to wars in the Middle East to money given to the state of Israel, which has been recognized by the United Nations as a violator of human rights for its treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank (Human Rights Watch, 2018). Of these, America’s special relationship with Israel is perhaps the most unsettling. Israel receives more than $3 billion in foreign aid from the U.S. every year, which is one-fifth of the entire foreign aid budget of the U.S., and the U.S. is further committed to giving $38 billion in military financial aid over the next several years (Sharp, 2018). Essentially, the U.S. is helping to fund a human rights violator by continuing……

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Facione, P. (2006). Critical thinking: what it is and why it counts. Insight Assessments.

Hooks, B. (1999). Black looks: Race and representation. South End Press.

Human Rights Watch. (2018). Israel and Palestine. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/israel/palestine

Johnson, S. A. (2011). Women, Shared Leadership, and Policy: The Mano River Women's Peace Network Case Study. Journal of Pan African Studies, 4(8).

Mearsheimer, J. J., & Walt, S. M. (2007). The Israel lobby and US foreign policy. Macmillan.

Richards, R. (2010). Everyday creativity. The Cambridge handbook of creativity, 189-215.

Sharp, J. (2018). U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel. Retrieved from  https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf 

Verhaeghe, P. (2014). Neoliberalism has brought out the worst in us. The Guardian. Annotated Bibliography

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