The Need for Strategic Alliances and Other Partners The changing nature of work has accelerated the need to collaborate across departmental, company, advisor, and vendor boundaries. This increased focus on enterprise collaboration has required tight integration of EDI technology and communication. When CSI started to enter into strategic alliances, we developed ongoing relationships with our channel partners, in order to offer customers complete human resource solutions. CSI has developed multi-layered…

Putting Patient Needs or Employee Needs First? Lafley and Martin (2013) define strategy as “an integrated set of choices that uniquely positions the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage and superior value relative to the competition”. A vision and mission can set the strategic intent of the organization. The strategic intent represents a declaration of where the business or organization would like to be at some future time. The vision and mission establish both the future…

someone putting themselves before everyone else in the organization. Employees or team members maybe jealous of what others have or full of envy. Situations like this can exist in any organization including the fire service. No matter what sector of industry people are involved with, there will always be conflict among management, employees, and first responders. In my opinion, the most crucial elements to successful conflict resolution is compromise and understanding the needs of others. Based on…

My thoughts on this subject are extremely personal and have been developing since my first shift with Meagan and continue to develop with every interaction I observe her in with other nurses and patients. To be honest, I was surprised a confrontation such as this one had not taken place much sooner. At the same time, I was shocked when it did happen. I think Meagan is often times abrasive without knowing it. She is an incredible nurse when it comes to taking care of the medical side of things. However…

Planning the Needs of Other Organizations Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) are databases used for keeping track of essential personnel data within organizations. They can be designed and customized to fit the needs of various companies in many different industries (Tatum, 2011). The primary purpose of an HRIS is to make the management of employees more efficient. The HRIS System can be used to identify and track job applicants and maintain status on current employees. All stages…

exempt from putting down other women, especially those who are of lower social rank. In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, women are seen treating other women unequally based upon their appearance, manners, and skills. During the Regency era appearance was extremely important. If a woman arrived at a party under or overdressed she would be mocked and ridiculed for days by other women. Since propriety was valued as well, those who were dressed scandalously would be avoided by others to safeguard…

matter hard they have to work to stay there. Willy has to maintain his human dignity by not going out on sales trips because of the problems he is having. Instead of going on trips he decides that he needs to stay in town, to help him and his family. Also, to maintain his human dignity he decides that he needs to tell his sons at the restaurant that he didn’t get the job; even though by the end of the story he ended up getting killed. Both of these stories show that you can’t always think about yourself…

servant leadership? Servant leadership is a style of leadership practices first outlined by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970. The style of leadership is different than the other styles of leadership in that the focus of servant leadership is to empower others to make change alongside of the leader. Servant leaders believe in the change being made and work with others to make change happen, instead of simply dictating what needs to be done and how it should be done. Additionally, servant leadership also…

made, it simply cannot answer why the universe came into existence into first place. A question religion seems to answer. If we are to stay with subject of creation, we find many places in which it seems that science and faith not only seem to be present harmoniously but, if both are considered as fact, seem to provide a very logical conclusion to certain cosmological issues. For instance if the Big Bang theory (a theory first put forward by a catholic strongly supported by the pope of the time, even…

The Successful Servant-Leader Servant leadership, as it applies to the modern world, is a concept that Robert Greenleaf defined in his influential 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader. Greenleaf’s essay explains that servant leadership is an amalgam of concrete leadership styles and “fragments of data” that came to him through “intuitive insight” (1970). Having worked at AT&T from 1926-1964, he accumulated a number of leadership qualities throughout his professional career. After retirement he began…