paper is regarding the Senkaku island dispute between China and Japan. The paper will have covered both China and Japans perspectives as well as that from the USA as a neutral view.

Topic:

Senkaku Islands dispute

Description

The overall paper is regarding the Senkaku island dispute between China and Japan. The paper will have covered both China and Japans perspectives as well as that from the USA as a neutral view. The conclusion I would like to ultimately conclude that the islands belong to Japan, but try to take a neutral position if possible. Use the neutral view to help conclude this as well as Japans claims.

What factors and trends are most relevant for the organisation, and why? Which are likely to pose threats / offer opportunities?

Summative and Formative Assessment

Formative Activities and Assessment

Formative activities and assessments are opportunities for you to apply, practice and make sense of the learning materials and content that you have encountered. These may take the form of individual tasks, such as reading some text or watching a video and documenting your reaction to it, responding to some discussion points on the discussion forum, considering a case study, or participating in a live online classroom session. The main aim of formative activities is for you to receive feedback on your contribution or performance that will help you prepare for and complete your final module assessment. You are given ONE opportunity to submit a summary of your ideas (or an outline) for Coursework 2 (up to 500 words) through Turnitin. Please check with your module tutors for details. Summative Assessment Summative assessments are the pieces of coursework that you complete which contribute towards your final grade in this module. You should take the feedback that you receive from the completion of coursework in this module and use it to help you improve your performance in future assessments. Summative assessment in this module is two pieces of submitted coursework. You will be expected to submit your summative assignments via the submission points in the Assessment folder of your module. Your assessments will be marked under the Anonymous Marking Policy. It is the responsibility of students to respect and enable anonymity in the assessment process. You must submit your work using your student number to identify yourself, not your name. You must not use your name in the text of the work at any point. When you submit your work via Turnitin, you must submit your student number within the assignment document and in the Submission title field on Turnitin. 4 Sensitivity: Internal 4. Summative Assessment COURSEWORK 1 Assessment Type: Individual Report Assessment weighting: 40% Word count: 2000 Words Submission Method: Turnitin Submission Dates: Provisional Grade and Feedback Release Date: Assessment Guidance In your report you critically evaluate the current marketing strategy of the company, drawing on the environmental analysis and based on theoretical frameworks and available data. You critically analyse the current role of innovative marketing within the organisation. Academic literature as well as industry related resources must be used. The structure of the report and weight of sections in the overall grade are outlined below. 1. Introduction • Introduce the organisation, history (if applicable), and product or service that you will write about. Briefly introduce the goals and scope of your report. 2. Consumer behaviour and decision-making • Identify the customer segment(s) of the organisation and analyse their purchasing behaviour. • Critically analyse the value preposition of the company’s product/service for the selected segment(s). • Assess how the organisation currently positions itself within its target market (use the suitable tool). 3. Marketing audit • Critically analyse the macro environment using suitable analysis tools. • Evaluate the microenvironment, applying appropriate framework/model. • What factors and trends are most relevant for the organisation, and why? Which are likely to pose threats / offer opportunities? • Critically analyse the relevant marketing activities of the selected organisation. • Summarise the results of the audit with an appropriate tool (e.g. SWOT, TOWS analysis. 5 Sensitivity: Internal 4. Presentation Harvard style referencing must be correct throughout, including in-text citations and the references in the Reference list. Formatting, grammar, vocabulary, terminology is of high standard.

identify stakeholders and their roles in processing passengers in the terminal, on the airport and on the airport land and potentially off-airport in the context of different airports of the following geographic region: Asia

Description

identify stakeholders and their roles in processing passengers in the terminal, on the airport and on the airport land and potentially off-airport in the context of different airports of the following geographic region: Asia a. Compare and discuss different cases and identify advantages and disadvantages Hong Kong International Airport – Identify stakeholders – roles in processing passengers in the terminal and at the airport

1. Identify Stakeholders – HKG Gov – Airport Authority Hong Kong –

2. roles in processing passengers in the terminal and at the airport (natalie) 800 words

3. On the airport land and off-airport (woody) 800 words

4. Compare with Singapore (pros and cons)

Critically examine the relationship between learning and socio-emotional difficulties and discuss implications for classroom behaviour management

Topic:

Critically examine the relationship between learning and socio-emotional difficulties and discuss implications for classroom behaviour management

Description

2,500 word essay

Demonstrate principles of accountability in professional practice.

B1.1 Professional Issues

Demonstrate principles of accountability in professional practice. Recognising the limitations of practice both in the role of ASP/SFA with extended skills and own scope of professional practice. (T)

Students comments:

B1.2 Communication

Demonstrate appropriate interaction with patients to ensure patient comfort and safety. Assessing a patients anxiety level and offers appropriate reassurance recognising the possible consequences of patient pre-operative anxiety. (T&C)

Students comments:

B 1.3 Communication

Demonstrate different communication methods with members of the multidisciplinary team and patients. (T&C)

Students comments:

To what extent will an unhealthy work-life balance affect employees within the work environment?

Introduction

A work-life balance varies in definition and over time it has been evolving; it involves looking at how working people manage time spent at and outside of work. Although the definition seems straightforward, professionals struggle to define it let alone achieve it. How people manage their work to life has a massive effect on their performance and how healthy a work environment is. Maintaining this helps reduce stress and helps prevent burnout in the work place. Research by Harvard business review (2017) shows that “the psychological and physical problems of burned-out employees” are just the most obvious impacts that cost an average of $125 billion to $190 billion a year and the effects on a business can be far greater. Low productivity and high turnover rates are effects that a poor work life balance can have on a business along with the loss of most capable talent. These issues have a long-term effect on the growth and progress of a business hence the need for executives to confront the problem at an organizational level.

It is important for employers to identify the difference in opinions between the generations. Being educated in what is expected of them as managers to lead their organization in a better manner whilst working on minimizing the issues that happen from an imbalance in their work life ratio will help businesses flourish.

Theoretical background and Research focus

When discussing the importance of work life balance in the modern business environment, it is important to note the following theories.

Segmentation Theory

This theory is argued to be one of the earliest theories on work-life balance, this theory looks at work life and family life are separate entities that do not depend on each other as they are inherently segmented. Due to this independence, neither family life or work life affect the other allowing people to set boundaries between the two categories and skillfully organize their life. Other studies argue against this theory and explain that work life and family life are more closely related.

Spill-Over Theory

The spill-over theory argues the opposite of the Segmentation theory. This theory is the most popular stance adopted by researchers examining the importance of work-life whilst also providing the most evidence; it explains that both environments will affect one another and that any positive or negative experiences will carry over into the other. Researches suggest that workers carry the emotions, attitudes, skills and behaviors that they establish at work into their family life and vice versa. To put a negative spillover in context, we can imagine an individual going through marital problems, this will affect the way that the individual will behave in the work place that may also lead to a decrease in the quality of work whereas a positive experience such as a promotion at work, will enhance family life experience. “There is no boundary between the workplace and the home. Therefore, what happens at work will also happen at home” (Young and Kleiner, 1992).

Spillover theory fails to acknowledge other behavioral connections between work and family and treats individuals as reactive only. It does not take into account the environment that these individuals are in or the fact that they have the ability to shape their environment.

Border Theory

Clark argues that work and family systems, though different, are interconnected. Where other theories address the work life balance in a more emotional way, Clark suggests that the primary connection between work and family systems is not emotional, but human. Though people shape their environments, they also in turn shape them and it is this contradiction that makes the work life balance extremely challenging to study (Clark, 2000). This theory is designed to remedy the criticisms and gaps of previous theories.

Integration Theory

Where work-life balance aims to achieve a balance between work and life in which both coexist and thrive to a healthy degree; integration is about bringing the two closer together. In essence, work-life integration sees every activity throughout the day as a whole. It focuses on when the best time to focus on either work or personal life is, for example checking and responding to personal emails during the work day or working later during the day to focus on a personal project during the morning. Overall, it emphasis the importance of timing.

Work-Life Balance Objectives for Executive Leaders

In modern day business environments, a healthy work-life balance should be encouraged. A unhealthy work-life balance will have many negative affects on an organization and more importance needs to be placed on this to avoid future complications within a business. Executive leaders need to tackle this issue and have measurements in place to aid their employees into having a better work-life balance.

Making Time

Former president and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Brian Dyson paints a picture in a former speech of why we strive for balance. He compares life to a game in which 5 balls are being juggled at the same time all representing work, family, health, friends and spirit. Work is a rubber ball that can bounce back whereas all the others are made of glass, dropping one of these means that they will never be the same. This must be understood and balanced in ones life accordingly. (Executives Unlimited, 2022)

Being realistic with the workload that executives hand over to their employees is crucial to the health of the people working within the organization. Not only is there an affect on ones physical health but also it causes a bigger strain on ones mental health when they do not get the break that they need. This may cause people to leave jobs that in turn will affect turnover rates leading to businesses having higher costs when recruiting.

The Four Burner Theory

Imagine a four-burner gas stove represents your life. Each burner represents one major part of your life: Work; Health; Family and Friends. This theory states “in order to be successful, you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful, you have to cut off two.” (Mistry, 2020).

It is not as black and white as this may seem, people have different types of relationships with different things that this theory does not take into account. It is not entirely necessary to completely switch off any of your burners what is important is how you balance it and using this metaphor, the heat that it is placed at.

Hypothesis

Hypothesis 1: Work-life balance is positively related to work engagement

Although research to show that a high level of work-life balance results in a high level of work engagement is limited, we can apply the spill-over theory to this hypothesis. We can come to the assumption that positive emotions in ones life will directly affect ones work engagement and vice versa. This is due to the reason that there are lower levels of stress on employees that have a healthier balanced work-life.

Using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in correspondence to the Spill-over Theory, without ones psychological needs of love and belonging that comes from ones life away from work, that person cannot meet their full potential in life. Work engagement is more significant when ones needs are met outside of work as well as at work.

Research Questions

• How important is a work-life balance in modern day businesses?
• To what extent will an unhealthy work-life balance affect employees within the work environment?

Importance of Work-Life Balance

As previously mentioned, it is important to differentiate between the needs of the different generations and the effect that it will have on businesses in the future. Millennials are predicted to comprise more than a third of adult Americans by 2020 and 75 percent of the workforce by 2025 (Miller, 2016) hence the need to adjust the meaning of a healthy work-life balance for a more suitable target audience.

Creating a work environment that places importance on a healthy work-life balance is especially important for Millenials (born between 1981 and 2000) as work ethic is thought to be a secondary compared to the generation born between 1945 and 1960. This generation (Baby Boomers) craved stability in the workplace and valued the opportunity for employment and because of this, work-life balance was not considered a main priority due to the hardships of the war. Millenials, on the other hand, are born into the harshest student loan burden in history, finding stable employment to pay for extreme housing costs and further education remains a priority for them. They require more from a job to compensate from the burdens that have been imposed on them.

With Millenials predicted to account for 75 percent of the workforce by 2025, understanding what attracts them to a company is amongst the biggest decisions that a company should make. 53 percent of hiring professionals report difficulty in finding and retaining Millennial talent and 82 percent believe that they bring a unique set of skills to the workplace. These are extremely large numbers for modern day businesses to ignore.

Millenials are viewed as more socially aware and purpose minded people. In order to retain these employees and not have a high turnover rate within an organization it is important to give them the satisfaction that they desire within the work environment. This gives them a sense of purpose for their life away from work that in turn will spillover into their work ethic at work. Culture and work life balance are extremely important to this generation as they are willing to be their most productive and best self at work as long as they have sufficient time to do the things that they enjoy and that matter to them. (Tolan, 2022)

The impact of having a high staff turnover on company culture is severe. This results in a number of things such as loss of valuable knowledge and experience, loss of morale and loss of belief in the competence of business leaders (Bishop, 2019). Disruption caused by the high turnover rates cause a loss of motivation within the workplace and does not allow for employees to reach their full potential. Constantly being in an unpredictable environment like this is explained by the Border theory to be extremely negative for ones experiences at work and at home that will both affect one another.

This research responds to the existing need of aiming to appeal to the current generation of workers and how to retain them. The work-life balance being one of the main things that Millennials are seeking in modern day business environments is a strong enough reason to continue to research further into this topic of discussion.

apply one of three research methods: econometrics; primary-data collection and analysis; secondary-data collection and analysis

Important: Before you start work on this assignment, please ensure that you have read the Assessment Guidance specific to this module and are familiar with the advice in Social Sciences Assessment Information. These sources contain support and guidance that you may need in writing your EMA including, for example, advice on plagiarism, referencing and the marking system. Note that failure to comply with relevant guidance could result in the loss of marks or other penalties.

End of Box

Your project forms the end-of-module assessment (EMA). To be sure of passing the module you must score at least 30 for your EMA and achieve an Overall Score of at least 40. Your Overall Score is determined from your scores for these assessments, weighted as follows: TMAs 01-05 – 9.5% each; iCMA41 – 2.5%; EMA – 50%. The project element of the module aims to develop your capacity for independent study in economics, including the ability to:

• formulate and focus on a clearly defined economics research question that is well-grounded in the study materials
• apply and explore economic theory learned in the module, with knowledge deepened through appropriate literature review
• apply one of three research methods: econometrics; primary-data collection and analysis; secondary-data collection and analysis
• effectively integrate evidence and economic analysis in order to address a research question
• provide clear conclusions that address the research question.

The word limit for the project is 5000 words. This includes everything apart from references and appendices. Good projects tend to make significant use of appendices.

Your EMA must be submitted via the eTMA system. Work cannot be accepted in hard copy or by any other route. When submitting your EMA, simply follow the same procedure as you have done previously with TMAs, entering your EMA as ‘TMA30 – EMA’. Further details are provided in the booklet ‘Information for students submitting examinable work electronically’.

Keep at least one copy of your EMA and a file (or electronic copies) of the material you have used in the EMA in case your EMA goes astray or in case you are asked to undertake a ‘viva’ (an oral, or part-oral, examination).

Your project must include a title page that should include the following information:

• your PI (and name if you wish)
• title of the project
• type of research method chosen (econometrics, analysis of primary data or analysis of secondary data)
• word count

Note: Remember to include the Project Information Form as an appendix in your project.

Finally, we would like to remind you of the assessment criteria that will be used to mark your project (already stated in the project booklet Doing your economics project: Getting started, Doing your economics project: Introduction and overview, Section 10):

• research question: clarity and relevance to the module
• research method: clarity on the methods used and appropriateness for the research question
• literature review: clarity and relevance to the research question
• economic theory: relevance to the research question
• selection or collection of data and evidence: effectiveness in addressing the research question
• analysis: effectiveness in integrating theory with data and evidence
• aptness of conclusions in drawing threads of argument together
• evidence of independent thought and initiative
• standard of presentation and referencing.

Standard of presentation and referencing. (The Open University uses the ‘Cite Them Right’ version of Harvard. You can find advice on the ‘Referencing and Plagiarism’ page of the Library website, which provides access to the Cite Them Right website, a practical guide to referencing commonly used by UK universities)

The project will be assessed as a whole, balancing stronger and weaker elements and appreciating the effort put in. Just look through this list and then use it for reference, especially when writing up.

Assess the ways in which contemporary writing responds to ideas of ethnicity in two texts

Topic:

Assess the ways in which contemporary writing responds to ideas of ethnicity in two texts

Description

The two texts are Citizen: An American lyric by Claudia Rankine and Girl Woman other by Bernardine Evaristo. Apply critical theory in practice such as Homi K Bhahba on ethnicity. (In your answer, you should demonstrate awareness of critical theory and an ability to apply it to readings of a primary text.) Primary texts are attached below. Critical analysis check: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER Is the author makine an assumotions? What type of evidence have they used to portrav their arguments? Has the source explored different POV’s or has it mostly stuck to the author s viewpoint? Is there any significance in the background of the author? What other work have they produced? What significance do you think the source has? Has it contributed to any new arguments/factors in the particular area? Do you agree with the author / does it further your stance? Are there any limitations of the source?

state what made you choose this policy (because it refers to children and my placement was done in a child residential home), what is its focus, when it was introduced, what political ideas and values it reflects, what it claims to do, and why it is being developed/reviewed.

Description

This is one part of a four part project (I only need this part). It is about putting The Promise Scotland in wider social context in relation to other policies and legislation. It should also refer to the Scottish policy context and the process of devolution. In the first part of the Policy Response, you should place the policy that you used for your consultation in a broader social policy context in relation to other policies/legislation and literature. You should also refer here to the Scottish policy context, its characteristic features, and the process of devolution. In the second part of the Policy Response, you should discuss your chosen policy in more detail. You should state what made you choose this policy (because it refers to children and my placement was done in a child residential home), what is its focus, when it was introduced, what political ideas and values it reflects, what it claims to do, and why it is being developed/reviewed. It is also advisable to mention critiques of the policy and discuss briefly the ways in which the policy concerns the work of the agency where you were placed. YOU NEED TO USE THE PROMISE AS A SOURCE 🙂

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospital social workers and interventions used to overcome the challenges. A systematic review.

Research proposal

Introduction

Research question

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospital social workers and interventions used to overcome the challenges. A systematic review

Background and justification for research

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is a contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the first outbreak was detected in December 2019 (WHO,2021). The virus is an ongoing pandemic because of the way it has fast spread around the world. (WHO, 2021) states, “the virus can spread from an infected person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe”. (WHO,2021) explain that the particles range from larger respiratory droplets to smaller aerosols.

Most people infected with the virus will experience “mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment”, explains (NHS,2021). However, (WHO, 2021) explains that “some will become seriously ill and require medical attention”, especially older people. Those with underlying medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease is more likely to develop serious illness (WHO,2021). (NHS,2021) urge that anyone can get sick with COVID-19 and become seriously ill or die at any age, and that is why everyone needs to take extra precautions and protect themselves.

Apart from its deadly nature, COVID-19 has caused a damaging impact on the mental, psychological, and social wellbeing of society’s populations which includes but is not limited to the poor, aged, children, people with disabilities, etc. (Amadasun,2020). Also, COVID-19 has dramatically impacted the economy of many nations across education, health, agriculture, information technology, energy, oil and gas, and an array of other sectors.

Social workers across all practice sectors continue to witness the devastating individual, interpersonal and societal impacts of COVID-19 (Amadasun,2020). People worldwide have experienced job loss, financial impacts and worsened mental health concerns (Ashcroft, et al. 2021). Social workers and other front-line workers have been called to address the range of psycho-social crises emerging from the pandemic (Amadasun, 2020).

Social work practice delivers knowledge grounded in a person in environment perspective, a systemic understanding of institutions and policies, expertise in the social determinants of health, and professional skills to support individuals, groups and communities, as explained by (Ashcroft, et al. 2021). Social work practice aims to improve people’s lives by helping with social and interpersonal difficulties, promoting human rights and wellbeing.

Primary aim and objectives of the study

The dissertation aims to complete a systematic review of how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted hospital social workers and their interventions to overcome the challenges they are experiencing.