Thursday, December 26, 2019

Comparing Analects And Chuang Tzu Death - 947 Words

Analects Chuang Tzu: Death Should death be mourned as in The Analects or embraced as in the Chuang-Tzu? According to The Analects, Confucians believe that death should be mourned. This is in stark contrast to the Taoist belief, as outlined in the Chuang-Tzu, which states that death should be embraced. Each are approaches to coping with death, but I agree with the Confucian way of thinking that death should be mourned. Mourning appears to be the most natural way people handle death. It is necessary to differentiate between the various types of deaths and also define what the Confucian way of mourning is. Two kinds of death portrayed in each text are one s own death and the death of a loved one. The Analects goes even further and distinguishes between the mourning process for the death of a parent, family member and a friend. According to The Analects, Confucians do not appear to mourn one’s own death. They believe that if a person was following the Way in the morning, that it is okay to die in the evening (4:8). As far as the purpose of one’s life, The Analects places more of an emphasis on living one’s life according to the Way, and when time is up, accept death. The text reads, â€Å"Be steadfast unto death in pursuit of the good Way,† (8:13). This can be interpreted to mean that one should not worry about death, but on living one’s life in a manner that is consistent with the Way. If that Way should lead to death, it is what was meant to happen. The Confucian mourning

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

The Kingdom Of Matthias By Paul E. Johnson And Sean Wilentz

The Kingdom of Matthias, written by Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, examines the story of the self proclaimed prophet Matthias, formerly known as Robert Matthews. They tell the story of how Matthias built his kingdom based on his religious beliefs related to the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement that took place during the early nineteenth century. During this time period women played the role as the caregivers who stayed at home with the children while their husbands were out working. However, it wasn’t until the Second Great Awakening that women began to play a more dominant role in society, especially in the church. Matthias was one of the main people who was directly impacted by the effects of the Second Great Awakening and the power it gave to women. Throughout Matthias’ life he had numerous troubles with women and this continued to show throughout the reign of his kingdom. 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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Engineering Practices Case Study

Question: Write about theEngineering Practices Case Study. Answer: Introduction Ethics, a short word but have a paramount importance; it involves the inner choice of the individuals as they interact with the other person. In the field of engineering, it can also be called as the rules of standing order which can govern the inner choice of the engineer in their industrial life (Lisa Shaw 2012). As the case featured, the policy of the company seems good, as far as business process is concern. But when we are investigating the process and policy at the micro level there are lots of gap is visible in the entire process, we will discuss all these gaps in the next section as the case will be urged. Code of ethics 2010, is well defined ethical framework is available in Australia, its first section which demonstrates the integrity of individual also contains respect the dignity of all person without the region and gender bias. It also offers treatment without discrimination and harassment of an individual; it also talks about criminal activity involvement for personal interest and their consequences (Mcintosh 2016). The identification and discussion for management issue, the first thing I would like to state that, the overall only one criminal issue involved in this case and that is handing over the formulated KBC32 to the provide the advantage to other company for personal gain. The management issue is consisting of both kinds, i.e. Criminal and ethical, and this issue should be taken care, from this point of view, all the wrong thing which was happened in the entire case study can be accommodated in this section, starting from Walpole sexual harassment issue, not taking care of Brians issue, attraction of Roger for its prize money drag race activity, and morose behaviour of Trudy and its relationship with Roger, and finally ethical and criminal issue of handing over the formula to Milton. Conflict and communication issue signing the register and handing over the formula for Rogers test work. The issue identification process is not only managed by one person in the organisation rather it is the role of teamwork across the organisation, this cross-function group of people made from mid to senior management of the group. It is the responsibility of every team members to identify the gap between actual and perceived emptiness. These are the gaps presents the is sue faced by the organisation (Laufer 2006). After issue identification, next thing to do is prioritise the issue based on the level of impact and urgency; this is especially for focussing on the issue which is most urgent. A well-managed issues team prioritise the problem based on rating and its potential impact. The best way is to put each issue in a matrix of urgency and impact. By this way, it will be easy to decide, which issue could be taken most seriously and which can be avoided. The action required for each issue is given in the matrix which is as follows. If we put the KBC32 case in this framework, then it clear that the event passes at drag racing place is of top most priority and urgency, whereas morose character of Craig cattler can be handled later therefore, it comes in least priority. The womanizer characteristics will go to medium impact and urgency, because Melissa is already aware of his lecherous behaviour and Melissa trying to avoid when she is alone. Impact Urgency Low Medium High High Participate Participate/Act Act Medium React Participate Participate/Act Low Ignore React Participate Figure 1 Urgency Impact Matrix Low Priority Medium Priority High Priority Now the time comes for an action plan for the most serious issue which high urgency and high impact. If Melissa ignores the formula handover activity, the company may leave behind the competition against Strainer Company, and East Island Petrochemical may lose thousands of dollars by not giving the new product to the market. But if this issue is investigated sometime later, there is a possibility of Melissa will be blamed for giving KBC32 to the Milton, because she has signed to register for taking the sample. Drag meeting place is crowded but this is the right place and right time also to blow the whistle about this action. Since, this action is most urgent action according to framework also. She must develop a strategy to deal with this situation and action planning. First, she must call their upper management person; especially Walpole Snodgrass is the important person on this occasion, because he is the very astute business operator and well-known figure in the upper management o f East Island Petrochemical Company. Melissa must inform the entire situation briefly and ask for help. The Second thing she must do that inform the police and arrest both immediately, so that both can be arrested for some time, at least for few hours. This is necessary because Roger has grey envelope and Milton has vial filled with KBC32. If they leave this place then it is difficult to track what happened and who has done it, so this is the right place to act. If they get arrested then envelop of money and vial of KBC32 will also be seized. This is the immediate action that should be taken by Melissa. To provide solution of the above problem first I would like to summarise some journal which is related to this situation, most of the article suggesting that participation of staff in finding solution to the internal or external theft in company is important, if possible union can also be employed in this solution, it also conveys message that, this is the most urgent issue for management that needs to be attended. Participation of employee is the top performing tool to identify the dishonest employee. There is a company named as BlueScope, there are 16000 employees working in this company and there are about 24 employees working in legal department, it is very surprising to know that, only 24 legal members managing whole company, but finally it was found that these employees taking help for information from all other employee and they are running successfully (Scandrett 2016). Since this action becomes a criminal issue, this will be handled by Police and legal agency. They interrogate both person and take-out the information how this deal has started. Another good thing is that the vial of KBC32 is still with the East Island Company. Therefore, informing the police and senior management is a necessary step taken by Melissa. Any management in a company should have a keen eye on staff issue that could magnify in traitorous behaviour. The concern about property theft can be conveyed directly to the all employee, if this is not enough this can be demonstrated by paying attention to the problem in an organisation (Glass 2016). The further improvement can be done in such a way that the sample for 40 research project which is still taken by anybody for any purpose, this must be closely monitored from senior people that this should be taken by the person who really need it. In register, there should be two more columns should be added, one for taking a sample and second who is using it. Melissa should consult this issue with her immediate boss Brian, because he has long experience of work and gone through a similar situation for so many times. It would be nice to constitute a small team and discuss each detail so that further it can be stopped, by the time when analysis will be done in a meeting, all members will have clear picture of current issue environment and situation analysis with an appropriate solution for this serious problem. Now I must discuss most important thing is that, the above states rules will not work if any organisation are not actively participate in reducing the opportunity for a traitor. Unsecured property or easily picking jargons always seek attention from fraudster or easy picking for others, there should be a sound security system in place and by which the organisation does treat protection to all its assets as a major issue. It is also true for the entire organisation, which implements above mentioned suggestion and provide productive and fair organisation, in fact such organisation also enjoys reduced rate of internal crime which further multiplies his profit and reduce the cost of crime in doing business (Reamer 2016). As I have discussed earlier, there are also some other issue which can be taken, but after the immediate action. The harassment done by Walpole can be managed by Melissa until and unless there is no interference of work. But still if Melissa wants to be on safe side, she must consult with their senior bosses or HR department for this issue. They must warn Walpole and counselling can be done to avoid further circumstances. Still if there is any gap then Melissa should file a complaint with the police. The sexual harassment legislation is very active and steady thing is Australia. The first sexual discrimination act was introduced in 1975 (Sex discrimination act) and further modified by so many time, the present legislation system acquired by modification of sexual discrimination act 1991 which is still in action. If we talk about whole Australia, the sexual harassment is one of the most common type of complain in Australia. At present Human right commission under SDA and state territ ory anti-discrimination agency covering this legislation in several areas of work and education, but major area comes under this legislation is an area of employment. Most of the complaint in sexual harassment is covered outside the court hearing with the help of conciliation, but some serious cases also heard by court and justice maintained. In this case, some of them also acknowledged the relevance of power relation especially for workplace cases (easteal 2012). As we discussed the previous para organisation should be proactive managing theft by an employee. One of the processes is looking for employees talents according to their work, as discussed in case Brian Bunsen an industrial chemist, this is the responsibility of organisation to look for who is having what kind of talents and try to keep them happy as much as possible, there may be chances that the next crime in East Island Petrochemical will be performed by Brian Bunsen. Employee satisfaction is more vital that any organisation realise. Every professional in his/her life had at least bad boss. The relation problem between the organisation and their employee is a top most problem; according to a survey performed by business2community, about 75% professional voluntarily leave their job due to their boss not their position. In last we have often heard about firing the bosses to their employee, but now a day its reverse employee quits bosses, not a job (Hogan 2016). The role of Melissa in this regard should advocate the good thing about Brian Bunsen, and if possible keeps his moral high. As an employee, Melissa can perform a little bit for the sake of their organisation. There are five-point tip given by dale Carnegie which can be useful in this regard, these are (i) A clear vision by senior leadership, (ii) encouragement of employee, (iii) Maintain healthy relationship with an employee, (iv) To demonstrate the employees performance; (v) Give them a sense of empowerment (Parsons 2017). Conclusion Finally, it can be concluded that, the role of Melissa just start after the seeing what is happening, in drag race meeting place. Inform the police and their senior personal to ask to come and see the evidence collected from both parties (Roger and Milton), establish the fact that this was happened in the absence of Melissa and perform necessary action. After wards Craig and Walpole should be counselled for their behaviour. The role Trudy is not very clear that how she is engaged in this activity, this will be established in the further investigation done on Roger, about their relation and extend at which she is engaged in this fraud. Melissa should advocate the good thing about Walpole and try to convince the management about his talent which can be used in this organisation. The other thing, which Melissa can do is modify the sample register and add the column of purpose and Used by so that further picture will clearer than what happened those days. To avoid the harassment in workp lace management policy should be in place and it is not given is there any CCTV is provided in the workplace, installing CCTV is a good idea in the workplace. It was observed that crime under CCTV camera is less frequent than the open area of the workplace. References Foote Speight, J 2011, Ethics in science and engineering, 1st edn, Wiley, Hoboken. 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Scandrett, AGAL 2016, 'Awards for workplace sexual harassment cases are on the rise.', How to be proactive about workplace sexual harassment, vol 1, no. 1, p. 1. Schermerhorn, J 2005, Management, 8th edn, WILEY, New York. Silkoff, D 2017, 'The need for everyday ethics in clinical practice', Clinical practice journal, vol 1, no. 1, p. 26. tayler, EA 2012, 'Sexual Harassment', Victorian Equal oppurtunity and Human rights commissiomn, vol 1, no. 1, p. 69. Warfield, V 2016, 'Gambling motovated fraud in Australia', Warfield Associates journal, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 1-24. Whitbeck, C 2011, thics in Engineering Practice and Research, 1st edn, Cambridge University Press, New york. wood, RE 2013, 'Ethical dilemma: What to do', Ethical Au, vol 1, no. 1, p. 1.

Monday, December 2, 2019

My Pharmacy Work Experience Essay Example

My Pharmacy Work Experience Paper During the five days I was there, I observed a lot of teamwork, and in my opinion that’s what is keeping the organisation going so successfully. For example, when new stock is delivered to the pharmacy, one person would open the many boxes, another would put the medication into piles according to name and strength and another would place these piles of medication on the shelves. It was a joy to watch for the first time, because I genuinely thought it would be impossible because of the great number of large cardboard boxes there were, but it was all finished in about half an hour. For each delivery that took place after this, I took part in this team, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In addition, the main purpose of the organisation is to supply medication to patients, and I’ve seen that the pharmacy receives a lot of prescriptions with many items on it. On the Wednesday, I remember we had to deal with 100 prescriptions. Here teamwork is absolutely essential and I played a major role in collecting medication off the shelves according to what each prescription required. If I was struggling to find a certain medication, I would ask my colleagues and they would help me out, therefore making the process much quicker. We will write a custom essay sample on My Pharmacy Work Experience specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now We will write a custom essay sample on My Pharmacy Work Experience specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer We will write a custom essay sample on My Pharmacy Work Experience specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Hire Writer It is important that you don’t make mistakes when collecting medicine, because if you give the wrong medication to a patient, then this could have severe consequences so I made sure I asked even when I was only slightly unsure. I saw that on some occasions a member of staff would ask another to check whether they have counted out the right number of tablets for the patient. I observed that there was a constant checking process and this was motivating because the staff clearly wanted everything to be perfect for their patients. Moreover, when the medicine was collected and put into baskets (before they were bagged) the pharmacist (manager) would check with the prescription that we had collected the exact right medication before it being bagged and given to the patient. The result of teamwork here is that everything takes places quickly, efficiently and mistakes are eradicated. The teamwork in Solihull Care Walk-In centre was also incredibly important, and the staff was clearly working together to get as much work done as quickly as possible, to increase the efficiency of the organisation and to decrease the number of patients having to wait. For example, there were two receptionists; one receptionist would be on the telephone booking appointments (pre-book appointments) for people who are calling in by phone and another receptionist giving forms to patients who are simply walking in. There were two different forms; one of them was for people who have been before and another for people who haven’t. When the forms have been filled, the patient details would be typed onto the computer system and saved, and an appointment booked for them at the same time. I was lucky enough to do all this on the final day! This way, the receptionists are doing two different jobs, hence are getting more done. Whereas, in the Pharmacy, there seemed to be teamwork all for one purpose which is to supply medication for the patients. In the GP, I observed that there were different jobs taking place, from doctors seeing the patients to shredding by secretaries. I did have to do this unfortunately, which was definitely the least enjoyable part of my experience, but it is all part of the teamwork! In addition, in the GP, it is compulsory that every member of staff (discluding the doctors but including the manager) to complete one hour every day of attaching patient details onto the computer system. There is a great amount of scanning etc. to be done here and when I had arrived, there were about seven thousand sheets of different patient details on the computer system needed to be attached! For this reason, teamwork is crucial and the member of staff must co-operate to complete the one hour of attaching. However tedious it is, it is very important. I enjoyed every minute of my time in the pharmacy, and I also learnt a great deal. I just love working with medicines and I enjoy looking at the long names of medication and learning them. I now feel incredibly knowledgeable after my work experience. I know that if someone asks me what medication they need if they have a certain illness, I can tell them (for instance, high cholesterol levels which can lead to coronary heart disease- they should take Simvastatin tablets to lower these levels). Moreover, I liked helping patients and at the end of the day I felt a wonderful satisfaction. In the future I want to be helping people in this way and also feeling that I have genuinely helped some people with their lives. I experienced many different things from observing how the ICT in the organisation works, to observing how the staffs work as a team to get things done quickly and efficiently. Because of this, there were aspects of the work experience that I found more useful than others. Firstly, I wasn’t allowed to use ICT because the software used by the pharmacy is a patient database and here there is sensitive patient information. I was only permitted to observe what happens on the computer system. Hence, this part of the experience I found tedious and least useful. On the other hand, I found Wednesday (day three) probably the most useful and at the same time the most enjoyable. I got told on the Tuesday that this would be the busiest day, as it usually is, and it certainly was! There were approximately 100 prescriptions (as I said before). There were a lot of people just walking in too, requiring medication and these people had to be supplied with medication immediately so they don’t wait for long and later complain about poor service etc. These people also had to be dealt with in order to prevent arguments that someone had been served before them. There was a lot of pressure, especially on me as I had to work to a high pace, minimise mistakes and make sure that I collected exactly the right medication. Greatest pressure on me was when I received a walk-in prescription with many items on it. I made sure that I did not swap it with a prescription with fewer items on it, as I wanted to impress. Having said this, I enjoyed that day the most as I personally like challenging myself and I enjoy being out of my comfort zone. In addition to this, by the end of the day I felt a great satisfaction that I helped a lot of people by supplying them with the right medication. I do not recall making any mistakes even though I did sometimes ask for help (better safe than sorry! ). I feel during the 5 day work experience that I have matured a lot- as a person I have also improved. I have learnt that communication between your colleagues is extremely important as I have seen how teamwork is an essential part of the organisation. As a result, I have improved my communication skills with my colleagues. I also did a 5 day work experience at Solihull Healthcare and Walk-In Centre, and there I learnt to communicate well with the patients as well as my colleagues. There I got the chance to be the receptionist and take the details of the patients, and I learnt a great deal, for example the main type of illnesses the British public have and the reasons why people come to the GP, from mild coughs and cold to severe sexually transmitted diseases. At the GP, I was lucky enough to use the computer system (called SystemOne) on a daily basis. I attached patients’ details and records, and on my last day I booked a couple of appointments. I enjoyed this a lot. ICT is clearly extremely important in both the GP and Pharmacy, and I cannot say in which organisation ICT is more important, but I can definitely say that without ICT running both organisations would be very difficult indeed. In the pharmacy, ICT is used to order new stock of medication when certain medicines run out; I discovered that the inhalers ran out quickly as so did the Simvastatin tablets, showing that many people suffer from asthma and high cholesterol levels. There were a lot of diabetics too, in particular older people suffered from diabetes. In contrast, the GP used ICT mainly to book appointments, register new arrivals who now pay tax to the Solihull Council and to attach patients’ details, which are on paper (written by the doctors), to the computer system.