I am a sports analyst for a radio station in Ghana called Gaskiya Fm transmitting on the frequency 105.5 mhz and on tunein as Gaskiya Fm. Recently, there was a conflict encountered at Gaskiya Fm and I will like to share it and analyse it with the critical thinking tools studied at UoPeople. A standard radio sports show in Ghana should last for a duration of two hours. 30 minutes dedicated to foreign news, 30 minutes for local news, 40 minutes for analysis of the news and 20 minutes for…
Reflection one: guest speaker: Agnes Naera During a lecture in class Agnes Naera came in and spoke about her role with AUT and how she sculpts diversity and equality throughout AUT. Agnes Naera Is the director of equity within the faculty of Business and Law at AUT. In her “role she focuses on advancing Maori and Pasifika aspirations”. (Our Women , n.d.). This reflection will reflect on what I understood form Agnes’s Presentation and how I have interpreted the information. Agnes started her…
Informal fallacies appeal to the ignorance of an inadequately supported argument and can be observed in everyday scenarios. Although many are incognizant of their effect on communication, being aware of the format of an argument can aid an individual in reaching their desired conclusion to any situation they are encountered with. When an argument is presented with limited alternatives, the omission of other choices provides the argument with a false dilemma causing the arguer in the discussion…
in all situations, and they are that I am hard working, trustworthy, honest, and I love a challenge. All of these traits help me to be an effective follower, and an effective leader, but as I alluded to when discussing my power with regards to my informal leadership throughout the project, those lines are becoming increasingly blurred, so many characteristics that help in one, can help in…
The Rules to Men’s Smart Casual The workplace as we know it is changing. Open plan co-working spaces are replacing traditional offices all over the world. More and more freelancers are entering the workforce. Major corporations are relaxing their stuffy dress codes. With all these changes comes a new category of dress for guys to navigate: smart casual. What is Smart Casual? Smart casual is basically a mash-up of business casual, casual and business dress codes. If you threw them all…
The career paths of a nurse practitioner and a social worker from family and children are both one of hard work and great personal reward. As a nurse practitioner, I would be able to help people with their health issues. As a social worker I would mostly be helping out families and children with their psychological needs. If I were to keep following the path of a nurse practitioner I would be helping patients, taking their health information, helping doctors perform drug administrations, helping…
Based on the Rousseau (1978) writing of the Kayan group, there are several weaknesses that I had figured out. “Kayan as a whole do not form a group; owing to the nature of the terrain, communications between river basins are very difficult and extremely rare, and those villages within a particular river system constitute the maximal social units” (p. 78). This would stress a weakness the Rousseau on the writing of Kayan group was not addressed in detailed information since he was very difficult…
Union membership creates a sense of job safety and security as they strive to enforce fairness and equality. Economic principles and values govern third sector organizations and improve the wellbeing of its members, opposed to maximizing profits. Unions introduced a new set of opportunities made available to social groups that have been excluded from the workforce i.e. women and minorities. Unions fight…
One of the most interesting topics in today’s world is the one of the differences and similarities between the public and private sectors. Although much of the public sector tend to focus in the incompatibility of beliefs and incentives there has also been a great number of actors that have been able to transit both worlds with success. In the last decades, the idea has been to focus on the similarities between the two worlds and create a new vision of leadership and management for both. For…
five years, there has been a huge incline in job growth in the city. Over the past five years there has been an additional 7,500 private sector jobs added to the economy. That created record high 155,720 average annual total jobs in 2013 (3-year Outlook, 2015). In 2014, Anchorage lost 690 jobs, but most of that decline was from job loss in the public sector. When oil prices last year took a big dip, Alaska went into a small recession, which hurt the State and City economy. They say that…