Pamela Hays's ADRESSING model for culturally sensitive counseling
The author is asked to review an article from the 1990's pertaining to counseling bias and how it unfairly and improperly affects people based on age, race, national origin, sexuality, religion or other factors. The article is a literature review/qualitative review of over 50 articles with some of the author's own viewpoints and conclusions built in.
The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and labor unionization
This essay examines the causes of the 1919 Boston police strike as well as its relation to contemporary police work. The strike was the result of stagnant pay and appalling working conditions as well as a leadership that absolutely refused to improve. In the end the strike was crushed by the combined force of the city and state, setting back police unionization for decades while securing Calvin Coolidge the presidency. Looking forward, the strike is a hard lesson for contemporary police officers, because it demonstrates that one needs much more than moral authority to ensure a succesful strike.
Project lifecycle management applied to household moving
In defining the processes and steps involved in moving a household there are many comparisons possible to managing a highly complex project as well. The project management frameworks and sequence of steps is comparable between moving even the simplest household versus completing a commercial or private project. The goal of this paper is to apply the stage of project lifecycles to moving a household. As with any successful project, the most foundational step is to ensure everyone has the same set of expectation and that objectives are defined in common terms everyone can understand. Project lifecycles are the most successful when there is a very clear series of expectations and requirements shared across all teams (Pasian, Sankaran, Boydell, 2012). The most successful projects are those that set attainable, realistic and clearly defined goals that enable all project teams and contributors to stay focused on its completion (Cagle, 1990). Jas as a team involved in a complex project must all share a common series of expectations about what can be accomplished and when, the same holds true of each family member involved in a move as well. Both groups must share a common series of expectations of each step from a logistics standpoint. Insight about which specific steps need to happen when also must be well understood and bought into by both teams. The commitment of each team, in both examples, is critical to the success of the respective projects as well. Creating a shared sense of ownership in any project is essential to its success and the reduction of resistance to change (Jaafari, 2000).
For both household moving and for a large-scale project, there also must be a project plan that is very clear about the critical path, supporting and subordinate tasks. In the case of a household moving, the goals of the move need to be clearly understood, in addition to the process for selecting a mover versus choosing to move entirely on one's own. The potential locations for the move need to be evaluated according to a series of criterion, in addition to a framework being provided that shows the overall trade-offs of each location. The financial impactions of one location relative to another need to be defined with a series of metrics and the schedule tasks defined and sequenced according to time and cost constraints (Khang, Moe, 2008). Both a formalized project and a household move must also have a critical path defined, specifically showing which tasks precede the other and what the potential is on overall schedule accomplishment based on the acceleration or slip relative to schedule dates (Khang, Moe, 2008). As is the case with any successful project, the ability of project team members to have a high degree of collaboration and communication, including high levels of trust, are essential for projects and family moves to be successful.
Fruit taste, ripening, and mechanisms of seed dispersal
This is a review of factors that impact the overall flavor of fruit and also how humans perceive these flavors. Also discussed are various methods of seed dispersal and how humans impact this process through the consumption of fruits and grain and unintentionally. Finally, we examine metabolic processes that occur in seed germination.
Discretionary employee benefits and government regulation
The paper contains information about several legal and practical human resource management concerns. Some these include references to legislation such as privacy health care concerns. Others focus on benefits plans such as pensions and benefits. Generally, it is concluded that, in order to retain quality employees and work, employers should communicate effectively and provide sufficient, targeted benefits.