Problem Solving Decision making within an organization is a crucial function that helps an organization in tackling the challenges it faces and ensuring it stays relevant while competing within the industry.  Several intangible elements are always involved in decision making while addressing a problem within an organization. These intangible elements always a trade-off with measurable, tangible elements in ensuring the best solution is arrived at (Khan et al.2018). Fast Food Company recently witnessed a decline in its sales volume, which has been attributed to poor design and software malfunction within. As a manager of the sales department, I have to solicit the causes of this problem and generate the viable solutions in tackling the same and arrive at the best possible solution, in doing so I will have to involve everyone within my department. Analytic hierarchy process is a multicriteria decision-making tool that will I will utilize in this case to address the problem. Analytic hierarchy process is a multicriteria decision-making process which utilizes pairwise comparison judgment in ranking the available alternatives. The comparison made in an Analytic hierarchy process…

Summary of Driven by Desire  The essay “Driven by Desire” is written by Krista Bremer. The author is a lady who is a mother of a preschool girl. On one cold winter day, she encounters a mother in her new Volvo station wagon. In contrast, she drives an old 1992 Honda Civic, which is hard to glide down its window to talk to the lady. On seeing how she struggles with the old car, the other lady wonders that such a car still exists. Her statements make the author thinks of an alternative vehicle whose windows close effortless. She feels that such a vehicle can probably save him quickly in case of danger. However, the hurdle is convincing her husband that a new car was necessary. Her husband is a miser who prefers buying cheap assets to expensive ones. He purchased the current old car after arguments about the safety of their daughter. His character is founded in her background. He was born and raised in a poor village in Libya with water scarcity. Medication, too, was poor. His mother…

Redlining in the United States of America Redlining can be described as a process whereby banks, real estate lenders and other organizations refuse to provide mortgages or even offer housing loans for worse rates to customers within specific neighborhoods depending on their race as well as ethnic construction. Redlining is considered to be one of the most comprehensive exemplars of institutionalized racism within the history of the United States of America. Despite having strong credit qualifications that would permit any individual mortgages or housing loans, African Americans were denied mortgages and even also loans of building improvement to the current proprietor within designated areas. Although the practice of redlining tends to be formally outlawed with the passing of the Fair House Act in 1968, it continues to exist in the present time in various forms. The term redline happens to be also applied where most considerable supermarkets neglect low-income communities, thus leaving individuals within the designated areas with limited access to quality and affordable food products. Redlining and Shaping Communities Redlining involved the act of outlining regions with sizeable African…

SAVING FOR A CAR REPLIES Reply to Tyler I support your idea of how you would use $10,000 to purchase a used car. Your compound interest calculations are also correct. Another way you can save for the used car is by choosing a simple interest option instead of compound interest. Several banks such options and the amount after two years would have been lower compared to that of compound interest. Assuming the interest rate is similar to that of the Chase bank you chose, 0.02%. The future amount would be A= P (1+rt), that is, 10000(1+0.02%*2) = 10,004. The total amount after two years would be $10,004, which is lower compared to all the CD compound interests you have calculated above. Therefore, in case you have to choose in the future, always look for banks that offer simple interests and low-interest rates to save as much as you can. If you want to buy a new car in the future, you can sell the old car, top-up a few dollars and purchase a new one. Reply to Joshua I agree…

Risk Assessment One of the risk assessment instrument or tool for the 55-year-old female Asian will be the practical guide. A practical guide refers to a report that is provided by the patient to provide background knowledge about their environment and other social determinants of health, and, how these surrounding influences their overall health outcomes. Data collected using this tool are then used by the practitioner to develop a framework of intervention or a plan of care. These care plans developed are informed by the needs identified during the assessment process using this tool. Based on the age and the residential place, the identified client in the case study is at risk of several health problems. The potential health problem includes respiratory condition due to overcrowding. Overcrowding increases the risk of air pollution. With a high population, sanitation and waste management are not easy. As a result, the client is at risk of developing the infectious disease. Overcrowding also results in limited space for people to engage in physical exercise hence increasing the risk of non-communicable diseases such as heart…

Soul of a Nation Soul of a Nation is an art collection that existed in the era of Black Power between the year 1963 to 1983. They have shone a perky light on the vital role of Black artists’ involvement in more than twenty years, starting in 1963 at the rise of the movement of civil rights. The art examines how those movements, as well as aesthetic advancements in visual art,  were sturdily conveyed in the effort of artists including Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, and others. The artists reside in Los Angeles and have appeared throughout the Soul of a Nation. They have particularly been involved in the art and history of the civil rights’ movement and the following activist age. They have influenced and maintained the originality of the artists, which many of whom have no recognition. Betye Saar reflected how the African American was assaulted and racially abused by the white through the use of artistic images. The images portrayed disparaging imagery as a method of protest and mark of black women empowerment. The medium consist…

Reflections on Essay Introduction This paper provides an evaluation of two essays indicated in the assignment details. Each of the composition has been reflected according to the format provided in the assignment details in the definitive form below. Response to essay 1 The first student expresses that she has the concrete idea about her ideas but faces difficult time describing and voicing her opinions. There is continuously switching between tenses and needs assistance in arranging her thoughts to project creativity. The piece of literature starts on the positive note with high spirits where a parent feels proud of reading the book for the first time. She barely recalls her chi8ldhood memories but accounts how the parents shared childhood memories with her. The author was brought up with several siblings, and the father abandoned school to take care of them. The father was not a books reader until the time parents divorced. She spent most of the time executing chores and developing adventure for other siblings. She was not a fan of education, and her sister was two years older than…

 Strategic Procurement; Linksys Company Abstract Many companies recognizes the value of strategic procurement in facilitating a profitable growth and how it has become a source of value. This paper seeks to evaluate the sourcing methods and supplier base taking Linksys Company as the case. The introduction part gives an overview of the paper’s content including the Company’s nature of operations and the objectives of the research. It also presents the significance of sourcing methods and the criteria that organizations use to select their appropriate sourcing methods. The second part comprise of the sourcing methods and supplier base that Linksys Company use in its procurement process. This part critically examines the sourcing methods and evaluates why the chosen sourcing methods for the company are suitable to it. The third part encompasses the proposal for strategic source framework which can facilitate excellence in procurement process and enhance value growth for the company’s customers. Keywords: sourcing methods, procurement, value growth, and supply base. Introduction Leading companies take strategic procurement as a key factor in leading their profitable growth; hence, a source of value…

My Proud accomplishments and why I want to attend Westinghouse I’m most proud of the progresses that I have made so far in every aspect of my life. My life as a student has introduced me to various challenging environments which have given me an opportunity to grow in my field as and expertise. I have had many chances to interact with colleagues and managers in various niches who have acquainted me with the necessary knowledge in their respective contexts. Hence, I am proud to face the challenges ahead of my career regardless of them being knew to me or recurring. I am proud that I have had chance to stand with the successful entrepreneurs across the county all having differing opinions on the basis of success. I once learned that success is relative especially when it comes to entrepreneurship which is one of the professions requiring one’s much attention and depends on the skills and patients that one has for it to succeed. I believe that Westinghouse is the right place for me to build my career based on…

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING Introduction Considering hydraulic fracturing, a well which is vertical which is almost seven thousand feet is drilled before it’s course is shifted horizontal and directed to gas and oil deposits layer (Lawrence, A. T., & Weber, J., 2017). The operators than utilize pumps to introduce a large number of chemicals, and sand using high pressure to aid in breaking shale then release hydrocarbons that are withdrawn using the drill hope. Through rotation of horizontal turns, one well is used to reach a vast area underground. The expansion of hydraulic fracturing in America over recent periods is astonishing; in 2014 over one million wells for gas and oil were functioning in thirty-six states. The hydraulic fracturing has several merits, and America has evolved into a top natural gas producer in the globe, superseding Russia in gas and Saudi Arabia in oil. Hydraulic fracturing has generated employment, royalties to landowners and tax revenue. Natural gas is considered to be environmental friendly more than oil and coal and provides a substantial bridge to tomorrow’s economy depending on renewable energy. However, this…