Parenting: Is corporal punishment an appropriate discipline for children? What are three reasons why that you agree or disagree with corporal punishment?
Compare and contrast an epic hero to tragic hero heroes Creon and Antigone from the Greek tragic play Antigone by Sophocles, the tragic hero Macbeth from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and the epic hero Rama from the Sanskrit epic Ramayana.notesfile:///C:/Users/ADG/Documents/Ramayana%20edited%20by%20Narayan%20(1).pdfhttps://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Antigone.phphttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbethscenes.htmlPlease use the character listed in the topic and link provide in the texts
Essay Topic #1: Employee Engagement and Empowerment
Forbes Magazine (June, 2012) contained an article defining employee engagement as “the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals.†Written by Kevin Kruze who wrote the book, “Employee Engagement 2.0†the “business case†for engagement efforts can be summarized as, “Engaged Employees lead to higher service, quality, and productivity, which leads to…higher customer satisfaction, which leads to…increased sales (repeat business and referrals), which leads to…higher levels of profit, which leads to…higher shareholder returns (i.e., stock price).â€
Your Questions:
1. Utilizing the information in your text as well as your own research, and under the premise that, in the science of management, “there is nothing new under the sunâ€, it does appear that we have been here before. List and describe the work of three (3) Original Theorists from your text whom you feel have plowed this ground before, whose efforts have laid the foundation for the concept of “employee engagement†and whose work is being built upon yet today. Provide a clear rationale for your choices.
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2. Describe the “essential elements†of an “employee engagement†effort. Specifically describe how to get there and what programs, policies and managerial expectations you would assure are in place to create an “emotional commitment to the organization and its goals.†You are welcome to research and cite other successful companies and programs as a way of assuring the success of your own.
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3. If you were asked to suggest the single most effective and positive managerial attribute (e.g., transparency, empowerment, development & etc.) necessary to facilitate employee engagement, what would you suggest? Explain and justify your choice.
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Essay Topic #2: Management Principles
In Chapter 10 of your text, you read that Henri Fayol was one of the initial practitioners to advance a formal statement of management principles. Fayol used his experiences and observations as an executive to identify the elements or functions that compose a manager’s job. The post–World War II economic expansion created a renewed interest in Fayol’s ideas about managing and spawned numerous “principles and process†university textbooks for teaching management science.
Your Questions:
1. Fayol believed that “The responsibility of general management is to conduct the enterprise toward its objective by making optimum use of available resources. It is the executive authority, it draws up the plan of action, selects personnel, determines performance, ensures and controls the execution of all activities.†As you reflect on Fayol’s functions as described here, what is still relevant today? What “elements or functionsâ€, based on your own knowledge and research of management science, is missing and should be included for today’s senior managers?
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2. Rewrite Fayol’s above guidance for a modern manager today by completing this sentence, “The responsibility of general management is…â€. Consider the guidance of Peter Drucker, Henry Mintzberg, Harold Koontz and others to create a “fresh take†on Fayol’s definition.
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3. You have been tasked to create a “self-directed work team†based on the Toyota Way as described by Taiichi Ohno. Describe your plan, to include intermediate milestones, to achieve this.
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FINAL QUESTION
The nature of jobs has been changing for centuries and this has often created hostility and opposition. For example, the Luddites sought to destroy textile machines believed to be depriving them of their livelihood. In the current political debate regarding a $15.00 minimum wage, what do you believe will be the anticipated impact of robots, drones, and other automated devices on the workforce?
• Should these innovations be resisted?
• If not, how then to accommodate these changes?
• What is the responsibility of business regarding these accommodations?
• What are the lessons from history for us?
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Text : Wren, D. Bedeian, A. (2018). The Evolution of Management Thought. Seventh Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ.
The single greatest instrument of change in today’s business world and one that is creating major uncertainties for global economy and the nature of business is the advancement of mathematical algorithms and their related sophisticated software. Machines are communicating with other machines without human intervention, learning through artificial intelligence and making consistent decisions based on prescribed rules and processed through algorithms.
1- Discuss the nature and structure of a business algorithm.
2- Discuss how this technology connects the corporation to the customer experience, speed decision-making, flatten the organization and force the creation of new performance metrics.
3- Discuss three organizations that are successfully using algorithm technology to their competitive advantage.
.Describe the errors found in the hospitals transcription report. Describe how/why the errors conflict the JCHO’s DNUA list. Provide a recommendations for correction and implications to the hospital administrations For this assignment you will visit the joint commission website to obtain the joint commission’s do not use abbreviations (DNUA) list (joint commission 2019). Examine the sample transcription reports (attached) and compare then with the DNUA list (attached). Determine any error (s) found that conflict with the DNUA list and recommend the necessary corrections
I would like you to have a discussion on texts written in support of Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s, before their seizure of power in 1933. These texts include “The Horst Wessel Song”, online at http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/horstwessel.asp (Links to an external site.); Joseph Goebbels, “We Demand”, online at http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif05.htm (Links to an external site.); and Joseph Goebbels, “We are Voting for Hitler!”, online athttp://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif12.htm. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Some questions that you might consider are what reasons do Wessels and Goebbels give for supporting Hitler and the Nazis? How do they describe the plight of the German people? Why does Goebbels, in particular, think that Hitler will be a great leader? And who does he blame for the situation he claims that the German people are in?