The performance appraisal system The performance appraisal system is well described as a systematic review of an employee’s job performance. It significantly evaluates employee’s skills, growth, and achievements based on pre-established procedures and the company’s objectives. Performance appraisal should define expectations, measure and evaluate, give feedback, and record performance. The system not only provides employees of organization feedback on their work but also justify pay increases, job promotions as well as termination decisions. However, a performance appraisal system is faced with various potential challenges, which are well outlined and elaborated below. It doesn’t assess the actual performance of the employees. This marks a major performance appraisal challenge since the appraiser tends to focus on the characterization of personal traits and or interests example gender, height, celebrity crush. While these factors may contribute to the performance, they are not measures of actual output, which is a critical component of performance appraisal. Non-data-based assessment is another challenge whereby it relies on the memory and thoughts of the appraiser and employee. Thus making the criteria of the evaluation subjective on either party. 3.…
video games 1.0 Introduction. In all decades, video games have shown a high rise in entertainment for diverse people. Publishers of the video games have for so long relied on a dubbed revenue model pay to play (P2P); this is before the advent rise of the internet. Dubbed revenue relies a customer to pay for a single running game. Product retail entails a sum of money for a physical trade, (Osathanunkul, 2015). Internet introduction to video gamers brought a revolution in the industry. It did not only bring multiplayer via online play mode but provided a platform for publishers to sell their invented games and after sales support. Internet has really helped game publishers. The publishers can now sell digital copies in out of selling their physical copies and development of new revenue models; free to play revenue model (F2P). This model requires one to pay no upfront fee to have a fully functional copy but have an embedment of multiple streams of revenues. This revenue is mostly based on the purchase of consumers of in-game digital content (Osathanunkul, 2015).…
The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic work of literature from the historical Mesopotamia. The plot of the movie revolves around Gilgamesh, a king, and priest in a city called Uruk. The king rules through dictatorship who exploits people working them to exhaustion and even death. The king is also known for murdering young men while using women as he wishes. The oppressed people in the poem, thus seeing that they have nowhere else to turn to, resort to prayers for divine intervention (Kovacs 4). Their gods eventually hear their cry, and Anu one of the goddesses creates a twin for the king, Enkidu: who will be strong enough to confront him and in the process, deliver him from the tyranny that is consuming him. A trapper first sees Enkidu by a well. The trapper runs to his father, who advises him to notify the Gilgamesh. The trapper then returns from the king with a prostitute, Shamhat. They wait until Enkidu returns by the well, after which the temple prostitute seduces him. They consequently engage in…
The Patriot and Freedom Act The Patriot Act was signed in at a time when the entire world was scared of terrorism which was after the 9/11 attack, which killed about 3,000 people inclusive of the hijackers. Through investigations, the government believed that all these happened due to inadequate security, preparedness and limited information of the attackers. Given the enhancements that were constitutionalized by the Patriot Act, it is plausible to say that the 9/11 remains the most significant attack in American history because they worked. Some of the enhancements in the Patriot Act included; the authority of increased surveillance through wiretaps, accessing telephone records and business records of those associated with suspects of terror attacks. There were also increased cooperation among law enforcement agencies as well as increased penalties on terrorists and those harbouring them (Department of Justice, 2001). However, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the Patriot Act with those opposing believing that the Act is giving the federal government too much power. Notably, this is the same reason Sen. Ron Wyden insisted on the addition of…
impact of technology and globalization on Bmw Introduction Globalization is the art of interconnecting the world and making communication easier and more convenient. Through globalization, different countries come together to pursue common goals. Technology facilitates the art of globalization. For instance, through the transport system, it has been easy for people around the world to work together and come in contact. BMW has also experienced change over time through the art of globalization. The following content brings out the impact of technology and globalization on Bmw, uses the industrial and resource-based model to determine the returns, assess the influence of the vision and mission statement on the corporation, and evaluates the categories of stakeholders on the corporation. Globalization One of the things that globalization has brought in the ability to export and import items. Through globalization, there has been an opportunity for BMW to export its products throughout the world. The company has been able to sell cars overseas. For instance, in the year 2017, 1.98 million cars, in general, were exported by BMW. Hence the company became the largest…
Do Violent Video Games Cause Violent Behaviour? The tremendous advancement in technology has played a significant role in the entertainment industry. Advancement in technology has made games grow to be practical in nature, and the involvement of teenagers in these kinds of games has continued to grow exponentially over the years. Nevertheless, the main point of focus today in these video games is the violence involved and the killing of enemies. This scenario brings out a candid question in the minds of everybody: are these video games the cause for gamers, especially teenagers, to act aggressively or in a violent manner? Just like most of the teenagers, I also play violent video games, and I tend to believe that spending most of the time playing violent video games might interfere with the behavioral patterns of the teens, making them aggressive or violent. Spending lots of time playing violent games could provoke teens to act aggressively. In his report “After New Town,” Jeffry Brown, in the video, ‘Can Violent Games Play a Role in Violent Behaviour,’ reaffirms that killing of enemies…
Lifespan Theories and Practice This paper will outline a case vignette specific to a female at the age of 26, a young adult transitioning into adulthood. Through the case vignette, a description of the life stage will be provided in detail as it relates to social and cultural influences. Besides, a treatment plan will be outlined for the case vignette. Case Vignette Kimberly is a 26-year-old female from Boston, Massachusetts. Kimberly is the younger of two older brothers, one by three years, and the oldest by five years. Kimberly’s mother was diagnosed with cancer when Kimberly was only five years old. Kimberly’s mother battled with her disease for about six years before she lost her life when Kimberly was 11 years old. Throughout that time, Kimberly dealt with being bullied at school but kept it to herself in fear of burdening her mother, who was struggling to fight cancer and who was also the one person who she ever felt like she could talk to. After Kimberly lost her mother, she grew up living with her father, who she…
My life story. In this paper, I will narrate my step by step life history since birth and a sequence of events up to the current. In our family, we were five, that is, the two then three children. I was the firstborn and the only boy in the family since the other siblings were girls. The age gap between me and the second born in our family for ten years. That is an indication that I stayed for ten years, being the only child in our family before I got a sister. I can remember the way I was living a lonely life during that time when I did not have any other person to play around with like the other children in the villages. Due to the loneliness, I would spend most of my time watching cartoons on the television and moving out to play with the children in the neighbouring house. My mother was so harsh on me; especially, she did not want me to go outside and meet the other children and play with them. At…
The apartment (1960) The apartment (1960) is about Baxter, a clerk in an insurance company who gives out his apartment to be used by executives to carry out their extramarital affairs. He does this so that he can get promoted in his workplace and is able to achieve it because of the recommendations he gets from the executives. However, the plot becomes complicated when he falls in love with the elevator operator who is the immediate boss of Baster. In Broadcast News, (1987), is about Holly, an American television news producer who is attracted to William Hurt, a vapid anchorman, although she loathes everything about him. The plot gets twisted in that Holly’s best friend, Albert Brooks is secretly in love with her. He is a talented news presenter but does not possess the poise of William. There are many similarities between the two drama movies as the dramas evolve around love stories in the office. The similarity is further emphasized with the fact that in both the films two men are in love with one lady. However, in the…
Hurricane Katrina and the Madrid Train Bombings The long term effects of disasters go far beyond the destruction of property, business and infrastructure. Research has long confirmed that factors such as loss of life, property and finances after a disaster have a massive impact on public health. Every day, it becomes clear that people affected by the event are subjected to mental health disorders as a result. Without proper means to address this situation, the victims can suffer long term illnesses such as heart failures and risk getting into addiction habits. Hurricane Katrina and the Madrid Train Bombings are examples of such disasters. Hurricane Katrina in the august of 2005 tore through the Gulf Coast region of the US, destroying everything in its path. The hurricane left nearly two thousand people dead, and Thousands more sustained physical and health injuries. It displaced approximately 1.5 million people from their homes and left them disconnected from their social ties. It also destroyed social amenities such as schools and health centres, which affected education and healthcare. The aftermath of Katrina left communities vulnerable…