Transactional leadership Transactional leadership focuses on the interactions between the followers and leaders. The interactions enable leaders to complete their tasks, achieve their performance goals, incentivize their followers, maintain good organizational running, influence the behavior of their workers, and/or enhance organizational efficiency. It also enables followers to curtail workplace anxiety,...
Introduction Accounting managers and their juniors make resolutions, which influence the daily operations and long-term productivity of their firms (Kimmel & Weygandt, 2011). As such, accounting personnel ought to be vigilant, unbiased, and abide by the ethical procedures when appraising financial records. The profession depends on approximations and judgment calls....
Internal Users of HR Services There are several users of HR services within an organizational setting. The first users are the managers. They rely on HR services to ensure that they have a team of highly competent employees who can deliver quality work on their assignments. The needs of the...
Statement of Problem The psychological well-being of employees is in the workplace is crucial if stress is to be avoided and performance improved (Vainio, 2015). According to Hiriyappa (2013), stress is inevitable in the workplace, and the effects of stress are mostly negative. Mild stress can have a positive outcome...
Introduction The advancement of every economy is highly dependent on its workforce. The quality of the workforce is a major determinant of a country’s progress in the utilization of the available resources and those created by the workforce. Working areas are thus important because they are the basis of workforce...
Introduction Mexico is one of the modern nations that have a legal system not based on the common law. The country borrows much of its law from the Roman and the Napoleonic Code. There have been claims that the current Mexican legal system encourages impunity, and that suspects’ rights are...
Introduction The Home Depot is a home retailer, and changes in the economy influence its performance. Therefore, the most important external environmental factor is the economy, which presents a positive impact when it is growing. The value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies also affects the purchasing power of...
Introduction Ethics in business acts as a baseline through which enterprises operate, and they define the right course of action to take when dealing with a certain situation. One of the ethical issues that present in most businesses is false advertisements, which is meant to mislead customers (Donohue, Cevasco, &...
Introduction Corporate social responsibility has become an integral part of marketing for many corporate bodies around the world. Many firms currently have clearly defined corporate social responsibility programmes that they observe on an annual basis. Multinational corporations such as Coca Cola, General Motors, and Toyota have budgets in excess of...
Maintaining competitiveness in the world of business is very difficult. Organizations must be ready to ensure that they respond to changes in their respective sectors in a timely and effective manner through gradual and continuous changes. The concept of continuous improvement provides an important guideline through which organizations can implement...
Executive Summary The current procurement functions at KLM Construction Company are inefficient and costly. Identification of these weaknesses offers the management an opportunity to productivity levels of this department. It is proposed that the firm should technology-based system to help it monitor its transit goods more efficiently. The new system...
Despite numerous attempts to address the issue of the recreational use of marijuana, it still remains one of the most hot-button issues on the national agenda. After numerous discussions and heated arguments, as well as an impressive number of court cases, the use of recreational marijuana was finally allowed in...
Introduction Obesity is associated with high levels of an individual’s body fat. Obesity is usually confused with being overweight, which implies that one has too much weight as expected. However, both concepts are based on one’s weight and height meaning that the computation results of the two variables exceed the...
For a long period of time, mental disorders remain to be a serious social problem that causes disabilities among the Americans and Canadians (Rogers, 2015). The governments of these two countries pay much attention to this issue and try to develop a number of effective and efficient ways on how...
Abstract The health care system in the United States is supported by numerous facilities providing different types of medical care for patients. Analysis of the whole spectrum of health care facilities in the U.S. helps to identify the specifics of each type. The spectrum of health care facilities in the...
Nursing theories have always been of extreme significance for health promotion. All of them aim at enhancing the overall condition of human health. Besides, nursing theories suggest numerous variants of the efficient decision-making in the health care environment. Nola Pender developed a theory that provided the insight into the connection...
Article Analysis Selected Primary Research Article: APA Format Battie, R., & Steelman, V. (2014). Accountability in Nursing Practice: Why It Is Important for Patient Safety. AORN Journal, 5(1), 537-541. Visual Representation Accountability is a powerful practice that can support the needs of many patients. The practice also increases a caregiver’s...
Annotated Bibliography Gallacher, K., May, C.R., Montori, V.M., & Mair, F.S. (2011). Understanding patients’ experiences of treatment burden in chronic heart failure using normalization process theory. Annals of Family Medicine, 9(3), 235-243. The main purpose of this qualitative study was not only to evaluate the burden linked to treatment among...
Significant life events refer to major occasions and changes related to life stages. They include physical, social, and emotional variations associated with relations, health, sickness, financial circumstances, and cultural differences (Barnett 2009). As such, the events might also be associated with an age-related stage like dementia. One of the major...
The Issue John and Mark had expressed their interests in Jane, who was an assistant supervisor at their company. Jane had however started to invite both Mark and John out separately on several occasions to talk about the company’s stores. During these periods, Mark claimed that Jane had made some...
Introduction The company chosen for this Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report is Etisalat Group. According to the company, it is one of “the world’s leading telecom groups in emerging markets with a market cap of 87.7 billion AED (23.8 billion USD)” (Etisalat, 2015). Its net profits and revenues have exceeded...
Introduction Equality and freedom are prominent features of any constitution. Of the two aspects, freedom emerged first in the United States. The Bill of Rights, whose bicentennial we now celebrate, “is mostly concerned with rights of liberty, not rights of equality” (Baldez, Epstein and Martin 2006, 245). The concept of...
There is a large variety of law enforcement agencies in the United States which cover all spheres of life of a modern society addressing existing and possible dangers in order to provide security on multiple levels and organize an upstream approach towards the prevention of various criminal threats. This paper...
Introduction Society has given the police the mandate to utilize force in pursuit of law, order, and justice. However, the possibility of this mandate and authority being abused remains one of the key challenges for police agencies and security policymakers across the US. Cases of police officers using excessive force...
Chosen Policy Issue In this day and age of globalization, people from all over the world come to this country in search of a better life. Consequently, there is a significant increase in the cultural and ethnic groups that need health and medical services. Health professionals like nurses who are...
Introduction Leadership is arguable the most challenging aspect of management in all spheres of life. Theories of leadership have been evolving over time. From the 1930s trait theory to the 1960s contingency and mutational theory, nursing students have had a robust lifeline on which to explore the faculty’s leadership structure....
In the contemporary world, health services refer to all the public services with the responsibility for providing medical attention. These health services include but are not limited to diagnosing and treatment of diseases, maintaining and restoring health among individuals among others. On the other hand, social care services refer to...
Introduction The cost of healthcare has been on the rise in the recent past. The situation persists in spite of the programs and policies put in place by the government to manage the problem. Experts predict that the trend will continue if steps are not taken to change things (Canning,...
Introduction In this day and age of globalization, people from all over the world come to this country in search of a better life. Consequently, there is a significant increase in the cultural and ethnic groups that need health and medical services. Health professionals like nurses who frontline in the...
Introduction The core competencies possessed by Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) are critical towards the delivery of evidence-based care. Cooke, Gemmill, and Grant (2011) believe that “APNs have the potential to improve the health outcomes of many patients” (p. 216). They reduce most of the complications and readmissions associated with various...
Introduction Microbes play various roles in maintaining the ecological processes. For instance, they help in the recycling of nutrients, decomposition of matter, and the production of greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide among other roles. For the microbes to maintain their roles in the ecosystem, there should be favorable...
Introduction Efficient market hypothesis The theory of efficient market hypothesis holds that all relevant information about the ‘true’ value of an asset that can be found in the market is reflected in its market price. This implies that there is no room for arbitrage in the market. Past research studies...
Overview of the organization FastMed is an urgent care facility that provides direct services to patients with injuries or other less severe conditions that do not require an emergency department (ED). The facility operates several walk-in clinics in North Carolina. They provide services for non-threatening illnesses and injuries without an...
Private equity and the categories businesses that can be attractive to private-equity firms Private equity is a term that is used to refer to the long and medium-term finance that is provided to unquoted company that has a potentially high growth rate in exchange for an equity stake in the...
Introduction Organizations play a critical role in modern society as they promote economic growth and subsequently benefit the entire human community. While many forms of organizations exist, most research on economics focuses on the role that for profit organizations play and their effects on a nation’s economic outcomes. However, the...
Introduction While evaluating consumer behaviors, there are such attributes as selecting, buying, securing, disposing, satisfying a need, and accommodating an item. Primarily, Mallalieu (2006) defines consumer behavior as a study of people, groups, or organizations while targeting to identify, purchase, and order an item in a bid to meet a...
Introduction In light of the company’s rules and regulations, every employee is hereby required to adhere and obey the set guidelines that define the company’s way of operation. It is the decision of the board of directors and the company to adapt the following business conducts and ethics. Promote sincere...
Introduction A-Energy Company has stipulated very detailed policies that help to protect its data and information. These policies have outlined the company’s expectations regarding the caution that the employees should take. In addition, they have shown the punishments that can befall the employees when they break the abiding regulations. However,...
Abstract One of the challenges that global organizations face when they venture into international markets is developing a workforce with a global mindset. Global managers should have suitable skills, knowledge, and competencies to guide their organizations through the process of integrating a global mindset into the corporate culture. Multinational companies...
Introduction I work in a nursing home in a rehabilitation section as a floor nurse. In some instances, I supervise the floor. In regards to my personal growth and development, I consider myself to be within the level of expert practice because I have advanced my education, undertaken thorough career...
Abstract Diabetes is a serious ailment that affects over twenty-five percent of American population. Proper treatment focusing on glycemic control, blood pressure, and lipid management is essential for reducing mortality levels of patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Lifestyle adjustments that involve regular exercise, good health eating habits,...
Introduction The human pancreas, which is a lobulated gland that is located opposite the liver along the gastrointestinal tract, functions in two unique modes. In one mode, the organ fulfills an exocrine function, which involves secreting digestive juices and enzymes that aid in the digesting process in the stomach.1 These...
Introduction Chronic kidney disease refers to the “progressive loss of kidney function over time” (National Kidney Foundation, 2015). It is a potentiate for global disease burden, and more than 26 million adults in the U.S. have the disease, and million others are at risk. Diabetes and high blood pressure are...
Article 1: Becker, D., Kessler, D., & McClellan, M. (2005). Detecting Medicare abuse. Journal of Health Economics, 24(1), 189–210. This research was initiated through a collaboration of authors from the University of California in Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The purpose of the research...
Introduction The contemporary health care industry is very dynamic, especially for professionals in the nursing practice. This led to the development of a nursing concept called cultural diversity (Starr, 2008). The main contributing factor to the development of this concept is the inefficiency of nursing practices centered on a specific...
Tax Difference between Florida and Virginia Individual Income Tax Corporate Income Tax Sales Tax Property tax per capita Florida 0% 5.5% 6% $1,368 Virginia 5.75% 6% 5.3% $1,377 Overall Rank Corporate Tax Rank Individual Income Tax Rank Sales Tax Rank Unemployment Insurance Tax Rank Property Tax Rank Florida 5 13...
Hedging is an investment position taken by an investor to counterweigh potential losses, which another investment is likely to cause. A number of financial instruments such as swaps, options, future contracts, forward contracts, insurance, and stocks can construct it. It is the process of decreasing risks using derivatives. It is...
The U.S. states have freedom to determine their tax systems and levy down taxes on their citizens in their own way. These taxes may include income tax, sales tax and property tax. It means that people living in different states of the United States have to pay differing amount as...
Introduction The development of criminological theories is as ancient as human history. Ever since the emergence of the ‘Age of Reason, human behavior has advanced as a subject of interest for scholars to explicate the origin of criminal activities. The development of crime has moved from primeval acts to cutting-edge...
Abstract The Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 was established to ensure Americans get quality health care services regardless of their ages or income levels. It is important to understand the ethical issues surrounding this act to promote a socially responsible and healthy society. Knowledge of this topic helps individuals...
The United States of America is still grappling with the challenges posed by obesity. The latter is a gross health challenge not just in the US. Both the developed and developing nations have secured some significant amounts of finance to cater to the healthcare budget on obesity. It is crucial...
Introduction This paper examines how caregivers can handle conflicts in their workplaces. The targeted conflict is bullying. The paper describes the best approach to dealing with bullying. The essay also explores the benefits of using proper conflict management strategies. The discussion also explores how conflict management styles relate to effective...
Abstract The study by Sharma, Lebrun-Harris, and Ngo-Metzger (2014) sought to establish the link between quality of care, which they defined as health center penetration, and Medicare spending in low-income populations. They hypothesized that high penetration was associated with reduced Medicare spending. The study was successful in proving the hypothesis...
Introduction Pressure ulcers are localized areas of damage on the skin and tissues due to the applied pressure or friction (Nijs et al., 2009). The incidence of pressure ulcers in hospitals ranges from 2.7% to 29%. The incidence depends on the status of the type of care extended to the...
Accurate data makes it easier for doctors and nurses to provide evidence-based care to their patients. Caregivers “should use the best evidence to make accurate nursing decisions” (Eizenberg, 2011, p. 39). The collected data makes it easier for nurses to offer evidence-based support. Nurses should also use appropriate methods to...
Introduction The Ministry of Health’s Pharmacy and Supplies Services department is divided into the Pharmaceutical Control and the Pharmaceutical Suppliers sections. These sections operate concurrently within the ministry. Thus, this analytical paper presents a comprehensive practicum observation report of the two sections. Observation The Ministry of Health’s Pharmacy and Supplies...
Introduction Capital budgeting is a broad subject that involves several procedures. Before making any commitment to invest or committing financial allocations to a project, there are several factors that must be put into consideration. This essay seeks to identify some of the popular decision-making processes that are used by CFOs...
Introduction: Overview of the Matter It is a fact that young people who have mental health disorders are overrepresented in the justice system. Such overrepresentation is an indicator of the underlying societal and judicial failures and shortcomings that have led to inadequate legislation to reduce the trend. While various changes...
Social corporate responsibility (CRS) refers to the obligations that companies have not only to serve their own interests but also the interests of society. CRS encompasses one of the strategies that may aid in achieving PharmaCARE’s dream of becoming environmentally responsible through green initiatives, packaging changes, and recycling of any...
Introduction Nowadays, the health care environment undergoes a number of changes and challenges. Medical workers face various ethical dilemmas, delivery systems should consider the last achievements of technological progress, and each country needs to pay attention to its own cultural, economic, and political issues to offer the elderly population the...
Introduction The US President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010. Commonly known as the Obama Care, it represents a major regulatory revamp of the US healthcare system. The ACA has various provisions that pertain to the improvement of the...
Diagnosis and staging of cancer Staging of cancer is the classification of severity of cancer. It is an important step towards evaluating the progress of cancer treatment and helping in devising a treatment plan for the patient (National Cancer Institute, 2015). The concept of cancer staging is founded on the...
This paper is aimed at discussing the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment which highlighted the importance of ethical norms that researchers should comply with. It should be mentioned that this study was supposed to examine the progress of this disease and possible complications. The main problem is that the patients were not...
Introduction Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) due to insulin inadequacy or resistance. The high disease burden of diabetes is due to comorbidities and strain on financial resources. This paper aims to discuss diabetes mellitus with a special focus on type 2 diabetes. Types...
Introduction The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the history of the Saudi British Bank (SABB), scope of the bank’s activities and services, ownership, Islamic financial solutions of SABB. However, this paper will scrutinize financial performance of SABB though ratio analysis and financial data analysis including balance sheet,...
Overview of early capital structure literature Traditional studies on capital structure investigated securities individually or separately, but the new approach analyses the various securities and the whole capital structure as one theory of contingent with securities having each own price. In other words, the securities are combined, and debt and...
Introduction For many years, Roswell Health Center has participated in service delivery enjoying success and facing challenges in equal measure. The major factor that has contributed to the inability of the health center to maximize on the market is the failure of its management to adopt strategic plan. Strategic planning...
Weaknesses of ratio analysis Ratio analysis is an essential technique used for carrying out financial analysis. The technique has several drawbacks. First, the operations of several companies cut across several industries. For such companies, it may not be possible to come up with ratios for these numerous divisions. Such companies...
Introduction Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) play a key role in the future of healthcare (Holly & Salmond, 2011). The professionals include nurse practitioners, clinical specialists, and anesthetists. In Florida, they are the core healthcare providers. The reason is because they are at the frontline with regards to the provision...
Introduction Since the Doha negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Qatar in 1999, there has been a deadlock between developed and developing countries over agricultural trade subsidies. One of the major developing nations that have been leading the opposition against high trade subsidies on agricultural products in developing...
Introduction The paper is based on a macro-economic evaluation of the United Kingdom. The UK is known for its diversity and versatility in respect to the economy. A macroeconomy is defined as the relationship between income earned and the investment of a country. Aspects like tourism, fishing, trade, education, agriculture,...
Introduction The two major approaches used to predict the prices of stocks or currencies include fundamental analysis and technical analysis (Malkiel 119). Fundamental analysis focuses on different aspects of a stock’s performance, such political environment, company performance, inflation, and economic forces. On the other hand, technical analysis focuses on a...
Introduction This study has aimed to analyse the macroeconomic variables of India from 1980 to 2012 that covers the Indian economic trend before, during and after both the Asian and global financial crisis; by analysing the factors like GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates and trade flows this paper would provide...
Introduction Projects are often designed to accomplish specific objectives. However, the achievement of these objects is not without various obstacles. These obstacles interfere with the project at different stages hence making the success of the project uncertain. A risk can be defined as a possible harmful outcome, which often comes...
Introduction Corporate governance generally refers to a set of rules and systems or processes that are used by corporate organisations to control business operations. It is also regarded as a means of managing organisations. Generally, corporate governance is all about providing direction and control for the operations of corporate organisations....
Introduction The means of passing information have increased both in number and effectiveness. There are both verbal and nonverbal means of communication that are used in the world today. It is, therefore, very critical to be observant on the gestures that people use when they are sending messages because each...
Abstract Criminal justice is a very important field in the study of law. It is a stage in the process of justice. It requires extensive research since it is the first stage in the process of giving justice to people who need it. There are many methods of research, and...
Risk Management Plan About Risk Management In order to understand the importance of risk management, the report will provide an overview of risk management principles. This report will look into the responsibilities of a project manager and the development of a risk management plan that will mitigate the impact of...
Innovative Nursing Care Models Innovative Delivery Care Models (IDCMs) have made it possible for caregivers to become effective health coordinators (Sullivan, 2013). The first IDCM is “taking a team-leadership strategy to interdisciplinary care” (Sullivan, 2013, p. 28). This model encourages caregivers to embrace the power of leadership and teamwork. This...
Introduction Diabetes refers to a category of metabolic conditions that are characterized by an increase in the level of glucose/sugar in the body. Diabetes is mainly “caused by the body’s inability to produce insulin consistently” (Laureate Education, 2012). Insulin’s main task in the body is to facilitate the movement of...
Introduction Emergency healthcare centers are the most sensitive healthcare places of all the hospital departments across the world (Patrick & Puterman, 2008). In the hospital emergency centers, cases of increased waiting time are gradually raising concerns in the healthcare centers across the world. Waiting time makes the emergency health care...
The background and development of theoretical ethical approaches in business Ethics undergo evolution, develop over time, and vary from one community to the other. For example, in Japan and Korea, corruption was at one point morally acceptable, but as the countries adjusted their laws to fit in the global business...
Abstract It is a requirement that all public listed corporations are to prepare financial statements for their stakeholders as well as the public. These financial statements are to be prepared in accordance to the accounting standards required by the country of origin of the corporation. This paper will analyse the...
Abstract Educational interventions for chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis treatments can result in a multitude of positive outcomes. This literature review has evaluated an existing body of evidence on the effect of educational intervention that influence the quality of life of dialysis patients. Many studies show that, patients have...
Introduction Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease. Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. It can be brought about by genetic and environmental factors (Arcangelo, 2013). It is the most common chronic disease. Over six million children and twenty-two million adults are affected by the condition in the USA....
Introduction Modern healthcare centers are frequently experiencing challenges relating to the ethical and legal dilemmas involving the overall mandate of the physicians in handling uninformed patients. Whereas some people perceive marijuana as an effective psychoactive drug that may be useful in relieving certain pains and emotional anxieties, there is a...
Introduction The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was ratified following numerous cases of major financial scandals that were experienced in several companies such as WorldCom and Enron. Some of the scandals resulted in multi-billion losses to investors. They also interfered with trading at the securities markets in the US. The...
Introduction In the society, there exist rules that determine the best course of action in any given situation. These norms which can be referred to as ethics enable people to coexist in harmony and most of them have been developed and practiced over long periods of time. By definition, Ethics...
Introduction Management law is made up of two terms that should be understood in their respective meanings. The term management means the organization and coordination of people in a given environment to achieve the desired goals of the organization (Schermerhorn 17). The most outstanding thing in the definition is the...
Prison gangs are security threat groups The department of correction refers to prison gangs as security threats because the gangs are actively involved in compromising the security of the prison wardens and other prisoners that are not members of the groups. The security threat groups are normally involved in drug...
Introduction The question that nearly all investors who have invested or are contemplating investing in risky assets ask at some point in time is, “how much can they lose on a particular investment?” Value at Risk (VAR) attempts to provide a reasonable answer to this question (Tarantino & Cernauskas, 2010,...
Various situations might lead to unethical practices in the field of accounting. While some people may suppose that unethical practices are intentional and deliberate, others contend that unethical accounting practices are systemic and stem from organizational structure (Mandal, 2010). As such, unethical practices in the field of accounting are complex...
Introduction Every health care provider need to be concerned about burnout and compassion fatigue because of the detrimental effects on the well-being. Compassion fatigue, a special type of burnout, does not only affect the physical well being of the caregiver, but also emotional, psychological, economical, and social aspects of health....
In relation to the 2010/2011 fiscal years, it has come to my notice that the company’s general performance trend is slowly declining. In lieu of these findings, I have conducted a detailed analysis to try and elaborate our company’s financial position as at the end of the 2011 financial year....
Robert Katz identified three main leadership skills every leader needs to possess. He reveals technical, human and conceptual skills are vital to any leader that wants to achieve positive outcomes at work. These skills enable leaders satisfy expectations of all stakeholders in firms they work for. This paper will discuss...
Definition of Health Promotion Health is the complete physical, social and psychological well being of a person within any environment that he or she lives in. Therefore, health within the aspect of fitness promotion has been described as the existing resources within a particular community, which give a person an...
Introduction People may experience mild stages of distress over time brought about by loss; it could involve family, job losses and even broken relationships. Sadness may diminish over time, while clinical depression may persist over longer periods of time. Depression is a disorder in an emotional state just like sadness;...
Introduction A mental health disorder can be classified as a psychological state of being that manifests itself as an altered, inhibited or otherwise thoroughly abnormal thought process, behavior or method of action (Greeson, 2011). Examples of this range from the severe such as: mental retardation, psychotic behavior (i.e. behaviors displayed...
Introduction Samsung Electronics is a UK based electronics firm with business operations on the global market. The company operates in a cross – cultural business environment, which require excellent management processes. It has continued to manage its day-to-day operations to generate products that have inclusively helpful influence on society. The...