Therefore, the organization will have to appeal to other companies by offering lower prices, higher quality product, better transportation cost, and a design to appeal to its consumers. The functional strategy the company will use allows the organization to take advantage of and maximize the use of various resources. Many companies are looking toward cheaper labor, Riordan has set its focus on acquiring a workforce with exceptional skill and a high quality work ethic. The company realizes it is more cost-effective and more efficient to hire knowledgeable employees with the drive to perform jobs at the highest level possible (Gallos, 2003). Riordan will pay higher salaries to employees with high-level skillset to attract and maintain employees with these skills.
1.1) The purpose is to become a better all rounded employee for the company thus benefiting the company with better output from yourself. The benefits of improving own performance is not only do you become a creditable asset to the company but you also become a better credit to yourself. Another benefit is that with continuously improving own performance the skills you learn will make every day to day work easier and result in getting work done quicker with less stress. If you’re always learning new skills it makes it easier to adapt to an ever changing business environment. 1.2) Feedback comes in all different way but are almost always positive in some way.
Education has many other positive ripple effects. Statistics show that college educated individuals take better care of themselves, participate in more volunteer activities, and more socially conscience. These qualities can only make a company stronger. Healthier living can improve a company’s health insurance cost, and acquiring better social skills and understanding only enhances the work environment. Similar to the ideal of our Nation, to increase education and accessibility to all, for our country is better when more people get degrees as our company is.
Another alternative is to further your education. Furthering your education puts you in a higher percentile of people in the job market. A child interested in education should be fostered and encouraged to seek and obtain goals. The school system is very important in this process, the higher quality teachers that are in schools supporting their students can play a very important role in stopping the poverty
“Communities benefit from less crime, more homeownership and increased time for parents to spend with their kids” (Hurd, 785). These benefits are all intertwined and have an affect on one another. When parents can make living-wages at one job, then that frees up time to spend with their families, which in turn would lead to more supervision and therefore safer
The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with. “Native American Poverty,” by Tom Rodgers justifies the allegations that a large percentage, about 25%, of the Native Americans live in poverty. “According to the US Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.” The lack of money has become a huge component in the dismemberment of the culture that the Natives so lavishly submerged themselves into, and the picking up other undesirable traits such as drinking. The
About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. Dictionary.com has described poverty as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. As a group we have concluded that a person is consider in poverty when they cannot afford the basic necessities of life including: food, shelter, drinking water, and clothes.
Taking prominent positions in places such as political office, school boards, and becoming a voice in the community to educate other about the ongoing inequalities that are taking place. Holistically there is a simple equation, get a proper education, which equals better income. Higher education and income starts an ongoing cycle to help put an end economic inequality. Better decisions will have to be made toward the economy because of the higher levels of education will have to be taken into consideration. Education is the key to
poverty Poverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. The readings from “Babies and Benefits” by Sheila Holbrook-White, the article on poverty by Michael J. Paquette, and “Keeping Women And Children Last” by Ruth Sidel made me view the issues of poverty in a different way. I never realised what kind of people were living in poverty, and the true reasons why they are there. What amazes me the most is how much these people need help, and how little the government is doing to help them. The government should set up work programs for these people to help them get better jobs and make enough money to survive.
\The Rise of Hunger at the Los Angeles County Area Though it is a sad truth, U.S. citizens in the Los Angeles County are not being ale to eat, causing hunger. Author Alexandra Zavis's article from LA Times, “Hunger touches more than 1.7 million in Los Angeles.” Zavis had claimed that definite amount of people cannot afford to feed themselves or their kids. Study that found, most people are struggling and cannot offer plentiful food for a healthy lifestyle for all the household members because of the qualifications of getting federal nutrition welfares. Zavis says more than half of Californians do not qualify for food stamps by the low income families that argue to what they can make on the end of the days, one of the examples Zavis explains