Decentralization

Whole Foods Market is a national and world leader in the food store industry. The company is well known for its leadership, open book policy, decision-making policies, team based operations, and more recently it’s conflicts concerning unionization. This paper examines Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO John Mckey’s leadership style and how it influenced the organization’s culture. It also discusses how an open-book polity impacts transparency on the attitudes and behaviors of employees.…

As Baldassare (1998) suggests, political fragmentation is decentralization of political authority that results in many local governments, districts, and locally oriented political representation. Baldassare (1998) argues, cities with regional governments tend to overlook the county’s authority and power. Thus, prompting…

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sustainable ways to meet their social and economic needs and to improve the quality of their lives. This approach allows the powerless to become empowered, and allows men/women to become effective leaders and planners of their own development. The decentralization of power gives the local organizations the substantial autonomy necessary to enable citizen participation. The USADF funded grantees, the local organization, then the local…

Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville According to Tocqueville, “There are only two ways to make equality prevail in the political world: there must be given equal rights to every citizen, or to none” (Pg. 52). Tocqueville in his book Democracy in America highlights the characteristics of the first immigrants to New England who were equally the same, the aristocratic laws that were introduced in the South during the time of the revolution, changes in the laws of succession and the effects…

Globally, chronic disease has become endemic, finding its way into new bodies daily. As the biomedical field lags in finding cures for many of these diseases, behavioural and lifestyle approaches to health become increasingly common. The principle that a proper diet, exercise, and mindfulness are key to survivorship for the incurably ill has become pervasive within healthcare discourses. This essay examines the global organization Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis, and their adoption of a…

The two theories, Theory X and Theory Y, were developed by McGregor to describe two different models of motivation used to influence laborers in the workforce by their managers. The models use two contrasting general assumptions about how laborers are motivated in order to form the foundation for the two different management styles. Theory X assumes that people have an inherent dislike of work, are likely to avoid responsibilities, are focused on their own individual goals, and have little to no…

Introduction: The United States of America is a country that has strived for a government that is by the people and for the people from day one. As a result of this desire for unbiased representation of citizen’s demands, the Legislative branch of government was formed. The Legislative branch is a “Bicameral Legislature consisting of Senate and House of Representatives.”(p53) While these two chambers serve a different constituency, the members of both House and Senate are elected directly by…

In mid August, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 7. According to the tech company, this new smartphone was a breakthrough for the company’s Galaxy series (“Samsung Unveils...” 2016). The handheld device provided the perfect balance of work and play, boasting new features for optimal satisfaction. These included a sleek new design, advanced security and “best-in-class” entertainment (2016). With the addition of a completely water resistant body, the new Galaxy Note 7 had just about everything…or…

The new, single-market Europe already offers apparently boundless occasions for both practical involvement and the more detached practice of discursive commentary. The business of education is no exception, in that teachers have the chance to involve young people in a more specifically European experience, and comparatistes have rich terrain from which to observe, infer and inform. For example, quite how far the British Government will insist on the implementation of its own directive that there…