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Social engineering

Social engineering involves practical applications of various sociological principles of tackling particular problems. According to Mitnick et al. (2001), social engineering primarily utilizes human relationships to attain a common goal. Such goals include combating drug abuse and terrorism using undercover police officers. Social engineering also helps to avert malicious intention of individuals that may seek to interfere with the corporate assets of the organization. Most people can get what they want using various social engineering tactics. Granger (2001) opined that in the context of organizations, individuals with malicious aims may cause security of organizational information and data. For example, Continue reading...

Is it more beneficial for a foster child to remain in the system until age 21, versus aging out at 18?

Analysis of Ending Foster Care at 21 versus 18:
The family unit is the most fundamental structure of any society. Although it performs a wide variety of functions, its most important function is related to its objective of raising children. However, it is often the case that the family structure deteriorates and ultimately falls apart, render the children in such environments utterly helpless and in need of care. In such conditions, it is the National Foster Care system that assumes control of the child’s life and extends a helping hand. Children who have lost their parents and/or their Continue reading...

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English (2010), a slumlord is “A landlord of slum property, typically one who charges extortionate rents”. Concurrently, the literature on slum proprietors and slum dwellers provide two distinct ways of defining a slumlord, each revolving around the given definition. First, based on property ownership, some of the literature identifies a slumlord as the proprietor of an area befitting the characteristics of a slum. According to the United Nations' Human Settlements Program (2012) slums have “deplorable living and environmental conditions and are characterized by inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, overcrowded and dilapidated housing" (p.99). Continue reading...

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In the United States, as well as the world at large, the issue of violence against women remains a pressing problem. With thirty years experience in preventing and overcoming violence, Americans carefully calculate the extent of the problems and risks associated with it. Thus, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 25% of women in the US are exposed to domestic violence in their lifetime. It is also proved that women aged 20-24 are most likely to be abused by an intimate partner. And every sixth woman during her lifetime was the victim of rape or attempted rape.

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Conscientious objection on the part of a nurse is not taken lightly by the nurse, the facility, co-workers, or patients. There is a wide range of procedures in which a nurse may refuse participation, but there are steps to take prior to the situation occurring in order for the facility to make arrangements to allow the procedure to take place. Nurses are protected legally in cases of conscientious objection, but this does not allow a person to deny participation in one instance and not in another nor to apply conscientious objection without discussion with administration. This paper discusses ten Continue reading...

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Ergonomics is a branch of science that deals with the way people interact with technology. Primarily, it deals with the safety and comfort of the user of a product or a service. Ergonomics is geared at improving the user experience without compromising on design quality and specification. Products with good ergonomics ensure against injury or accumulated fatigue that can cause long term or short effects on the user. To achieve this, a product should demand as little effort as possible from the user. Where inevitable, provisions are provided to mitigate the negative effects derived from the use of a Continue reading...

Literature Review

Introduction
The frequent extensively applied quality improvement techniques from industry are investigated in the setting of educational sector for instance, Total Quality Management (TQM); Six Sigma; ISO 9001; Quality Function Deployment (QFD); and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. In educational sector, TQM appeared one of the greatest numbers of past uses, whereas QFD is in the process of attaining acceptance. Additional methods explored in this sector did not show substantial application in America. A persistent enhancement method with the name of the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) applied widely in educational sector and explained as to how education Continue reading...

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A lot of literature has been written on the characteristics of an ambidextrous leader, because this is an emerging branch of research conducted on the concept of organizational ambidexterity. This section of the paper is being written with the purpose to define how effective leadership can influence ambidexterity and the way group ambidexterity can be headed.
The emergence of the respective branch can be estimated from the review that there were very less research papers on this topic in 2004; while more than 80 research papers were found by 2009 (Raisch & Birkinshaw 375-409). In recent years, a lot of Continue reading...

Kelebu, M. (2013). The impact of inventory management and performance of private organizations in Uganda. A Case Study of Coca- Cola Mbarara Plant in Mbarara Municipality. (Bachelor’s Research Report). Academia.edu.
This study sought to find out impacts that effective inventory management and performance can bring to Coca Cola Plant as a private firm in Mbarara, Uganda. It is going to be important to the current literature because of the researcher’s good insights into the definitions of various key terms and current techniques employed by private firms in inventory management, the association between effective inventory management and the Continue reading...

Introduction: Culture refers to every thing about people, the way they live, view things and communicate. Culture is an integration of human thoughts, communication, actions, customs, belief and values. It shapes the individuals experience, perception, decisions and the way they relate to others. Canada was declared a multicultural society in 1971. Multicultural Act was passed in 1988, with the aim to preserve and enhance multiculturalism in the country. It describes multiculturalism as the fundamental characteristic of our Canada.
Islam is a monotheistic religion, which originated in Arabian countries and later spread to rest of the world. The followers of Continue reading...

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Types of automation in manufacturing industries
Automation refers to the use of controls mostly in machines to perform given tasks. Additionally, automation has helped in making work easier and thereby saving a lot of time, which the employees use in other productive activities. As a result, the firm that uses automation recognizes increased profits due to the high quality of work. Most manufacturing companies have adopted the use of the automation machines in the operation because, in the long run, they preserve a lot of energies, therefore, reduces the company expenses. However, there are many types of automation and Continue reading...

Innovative technologies have been actively implemented in the hospitality industry in the recent years. Speed, reliability and precision largely determine the effectiveness of management decisions in this area. The implementation of these conditions is possible only within the framework of the application of information computer systems.
Modern technology started to merge in the hospitality industry in early 1970s and since then it has been having a major impact in hotels’ performance and overall guest satisfaction (Meuter et al., 2000; Brewer, 2008; Cobanoglu & DeMicco, 2007; Goh & Law, 2007).
Introduction of IT in the tourism business faces many challenges, which include Continue reading...

ANALYSIS OF TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SUPPLY CHAINS

Analysis of Textile and Clothing Supply Chains
Introduction
The outsourcing in the textile and clothing industry is in a continuous movement and evolution, which was speed up by the rapid technological development, globalization or economic liberalization of various geographic areas. Inextricably linked with the type of fashion that they serve, the supply chain adapts on various strategies and trends that the retailers and the fashion industry impose as a result of the shifts that define different societies. This paper develops a literature review upon the trends that characterize the supply chains in the fast fashion environment, looking into the Continue reading...

Literature Review

LITERATURE REVIEW
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this essay is to assess the need of improved communications in project management. According to most of the project manager the effective and affluent communication is essential for the success of the project, though it is expensive too. Social medial is a cost effective and wide reach source of communication. However it has its own draw backs along with the advantages and convenience it provides. In the main body of this essay these contrasting roles and functions of Social Media will be discussed.

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Project management involves the effective use of tools and techniques Continue reading...

Ideally, social media uses technology that involves creation and dissemination of information through the social networks. Specifically, social media uses internet that provides a platform for users to generate and share online information, which may be in the form of text, audio, images, or videos. Such information becomes risky when its content is injurious to particular people or organizations or certain activities. Notably, despite the obvious advantages of social media, including its ability to facilitate growth of businesses, the same social media may affect a business negatively, thereby becoming a risk to the business (Shullich, 2012). Some common social Continue reading...

CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND IMPACTS OF STRESS

Introduction
Koslowsky, M., Kluger, A. N., & Reich, M. (1995). Commuting stress: causes, effects and methods of coping. New York [u.a.], Plenum Press.
This journal talks about the causes of stress that are related to traveling. It can be a late arrival or mechanical problems or even delayed departure. The book mentions that everybody has experienced this type of stress at some point in their life. It also mentions how this kind of stress can be managed to avoid health conditions. The authors detail their personal experiences of stress living in New York. This book provides the definition of stress, Continue reading...

The mainstream, functional perspective of management refers to the perspectives that managers are to use their specialized knowledge to ensure organization work predictably, with the proper application of power resulting lives that are both healthier and richer. Management comprises a set of functions, with managers playing the role of neutral technology bereft of implicit moral consequences or commitments. Rationality refers to the efficiency and rationality, with human beings being means to attaining functionality. It is expected that employees exercise power in disciplined and acceptable ways, including the fact that managers apply prescribed procedures and techniques by which their performance Continue reading...

Logistics, a strictly business concept, is fast changing tracks as Humanitarian Logistics have taken the limelight. Logistics manages the flow of goods from the point of origin to the point of consumption by a customer or a corporation. Transportation has an important influence on Logistics as it determines the efficiency of moving products. The increasing globalization of business activity requires that raw materials and finished goods are moved across several borders. This requires a well laid out Logistics plan and the most important impact comes down to the Transportation sector (Tseng, Taylor, & Yue, 2005).
The not-for-profit sector, however, requires Continue reading...

Why music literacy is a problem

Miksza and Gault (2014) examined the variables on music experiences in a classroom setting. The data were obtained from a 2009 study. The variables included the regularity and length of time that the children have received music instruction, the regularity of using music to teach math, and the fraction of children that receive proper music education outside school. These variables were also examined in relation to socio-economic status, child urbanity, and race. In the study, it was found that there were statistically significant disparities with children in relation to their socio-economic status, urbanity, and race on the variables of Continue reading...

Feudalism is the practice of military and legal customs. Alternatively, feudal values involve the identification of individuals with land in the society. Feudal values are universal, the reason being that every person in the society owns a piece of land or offers some serve to the landowners. The characteristics of feudal values in a society are the presence of an inferior, or a central government that do not exist with some ranges of decentralized pockets of power. In feudal Europe, for example, there was the Catholic Church (Holy Roman Empire) which served as a very weak form of centralized Continue reading...