Nursing Reflective

Question: Discuss about the Nursing Reflective. Answer: Introduction: Cultural safety is one of the most important components in healthcare service provision. Nurses should ensure cultural safety in their practice. Nurses have to deal with health care users from diverse cultural background, thus, they need to show cultural competence to treat patients from diverse cultural background equally (Arieli et al. 2012). In this essay, I have selected the Muslim women in Australia, as my diverse group of care user. Identifying the barriers of providing culturally safe practice in health care, I would demonstrate my nursing skills to overcome those barriers. According to Mkandawire-Valhmu and Doering (2012) culture plays a major role in shaping individuals health-related values, behaviors and beliefs. Poorly handled cross-cultural issues often affect the healthcare practices negatively, resulting in unsatisfactory health outcomes of the patient. There are several barriers of delivering cultural competent health care practices to Muslim women Australia. In my clinical practice, I have observed that, though Australia is a multicultural and multilingual society, the healthcare system is dominated by a mono-cultural Anglo Australian approach, which is oriented to English speakers (Kirmayer 2012). While practicing in Queensland, I understood that, as Islam places the responsibility on an individual to practice her religion, their cultural variations makes it difficult to provide definitive rules and regulations applied to all Muslim patients (Kirmayer 2012). They also have Intraculture difference. One common barrier is communication issues wi th Muslim patients. While working in Queensland, I have observed that more than 70 % of Muslim women belong from non-English background (Grossman et al. 2012). It can hinder the effective communication within nurse and patient, thereby enhancing the chance of misinterpretation and patients dissatisfaction. Another barrier is nutritional issue; the dietary needs of a Muslim woman are same as a non-Muslim individual, but some foods are not permitted to be eaten in their religion (Kirmayer 2012) Failure to meet their religious needs might lead to patients dissatisfaction. For example, Muslim women are not permitted to eat pork, which is very common ingredient in foods like bacon, ham or gelatine in western culture. They have to follow only halal diet. It is also a challenge to bed bound patient to wash their hands before and after meal. As they are not permitted to consume alcohol, some drugs containing alcohol are also not suitable for the group of patients (Mkandawire-Valhmu and Doering 2012). In case of Muslim women, it is also not permitted to expose their body parts in front of others, especially if the person is of opposite gender. Thus, it is difficult to deal this patient, especially if they are having some issues related to sexual or reproductive health matters. Fasting is very common in Muslim culture, which is not permitted when a patient is severely ill or malnourished (Mkandawire-Valhmu and Doering 2012). It is another barrier of providing the patients their moral rights. Muslim is a male dominated religion. Women do not have the right to access healthcare without the permission of the male head of the family (Gerlach 2012). There is comparatively less cultural awareness within the Muslim women about health and health related issues. Thus, it is challenging for the practitioners to make them understand about the care planning. As a nurse, I have to demonstrate my excellent nursing competencies for handling this group of patients. I have always tried to address my patients unique choice, health and personal needs for satisfying them, while maintaining the health care rules and regulation. I believe in treating patients similarly, in spite of discriminating a patient based on cultural and sexual identity. However, I also believe in providing my best practice to ensure patients satisfaction. Thus, while dealing with the Muslim women, I show respect and dignity towards their religious view for enhancing trust. I have undergone a multicultural training during my clinical practice for ensuring cultural competence, as I have revealed that most of the Muslim women patients are not familiar with western English. Before establishing a therapeutic relationship with the patient, I believe in reviewing the patients background, which helps me to interact with the patient in a correct way. I always attempt to demonstrate a culturally neutral attitude towards my Muslim women patients. Being a female nurse, I attempt to assist my patients in their ADLs, by showing respect and empathy towards their privacy. I believe that, showing cultural competence encourage patients adherence with the health care. Muslim patients have several religious beliefs, for example, they have to wash their hands before and after meal, they have to prayer 5 times a day (Jeffreys 2015). I use my non-verbal communication skills, if I address difficulties in communicating with a Muslim woman. According to the principle of Treaty and Waitangi, I believe that consumers right is very important for improving the quality of health care provision. Cultural safety can be defined as the effective nursing practice of a person from another culture, which is determined by that person. As a nurse I am responsible for keeping the patients culturally safe, while following all the rules and regulations regarding the nursing practice. I never allow any kind of discrimination in my workplace. While handling older Muslim female patient, I have found several times that the patients suffering from impaired mobility, needs assistance in bathing, but they refuse to take assistance from a nurse. At that situation, in spite of arguing with them or forcing them, I have always talked politely with them and helped them to understand that we understand their boundaries, but it is very important to take assistance from someone, as there is a risk of falling in bathroom, which can affect their health severely (Almutairi and McCarthy 2012). I ensured the assistance of a female support worker and attempted to maximize their autonomy during bathing, as much as possible. With my problem solving skill I have resolved the cross-cultural issue successfully, several times. However, in one case, I had to administer a medication consisting alcohol, to a Muslim woman, as the medication was essential for her survival and recovery. Here, the patients cultural belief was not prioritized, as it was related to her severe health issue. I have also faced communication issue with a Muslim woman coming from remote area, where I used hand signs to communicate with her, instead of using an interpreter. At a population level, as a nurse or other health care professional, I would encourage the Muslim women to cooperate with the health care team through effective cross-cultural communication. Health advocacy is very important for adherence of the patients with the nursing and other medical intervention procedures. In addition, I would also prefer to advocate the patients about the importance of the interventions as well as the regulations they need to follow. In this context, I will advise my patient to go through the rules and regulations of the hospital and adhere to the health care practices. I will advise the Muslim women to participate in non-verbal communication with the health care professionals and behave neutrally. Initially, I would promote the awareness of cross-cultural communication and give them an assurance of being culturally safe in the organization. They are encouraged to show respect towards the medical professionals (Akhu-Zaheya and Alkhasawneh 2012). On the other hand, I will advocate other staffs to prioritize patients right and health needs. I will advise nursing staffs to respect and show support to patients religious belief. I always assist my patients to maintain religious attitudes, as I believe in prioritizing patients needs as a whole. In the health care team, I attempt to reflect my beliefs upon my colleagues, to assist other patients in a culturally safe way. Patients privacy is one of the key requirements for working with Muslim patients. Nevertheless, no gender or racial discrimination should be considered in health care context. Being a nurse, I have demonstrated the best ways to provide culturally safe health care procedures to people who belong to diverse cultural group. In conclusion, it can be said that dealing with my selected group of service users, the Muslim women, I should show respect and dignity towards their cultural aspects and should prioritize their personal and health needs for satisfying them. Reference List Akhu-Zaheya, L.M. and Alkhasawneh, E.M., 2012. Complementary alternative medicine use among a sample of Muslim Jordanian oncology patients.Complementary therapies in clinical practice,18(2), pp.121-126. Almutairi, A. and McCarthy, A.L., 2012. A multicultural nursing workforce and cultural perspectives in Saudi Arabia: An overview.TheHealth,3(3), pp.71-74. Arieli, D., Friedman, V.J. and Hirschfeld, M.J., 2012. Challenges on the path to cultural safety in nursing education.International Nursing Review,59(2), pp.187-193. Gerlach, A.J., 2012. A critical reflection on the concept of cultural safety.Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy,79(3), pp.151-158. Grossman, S., Mager, D., Opheim, H.M. and Torbjornsen, A., 2012. A bi-national simulation study to improve cultural awareness in nursing students.Clinical Simulation in Nursing,8(8), pp.e341-e346. Jeffreys, M.R., 2015.Teaching cultural competence in nursing and health care: Inquiry, action, and innovation. Springer Publishing Company. Kirmayer, L., 2012. Rethinking cultural competence.Transcultural Psychiatry,49(2), p.149. Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. and Doering, J., 2012. Study abroad as a tool for promoting cultural safety in nursing education.Journal of Transcultural Nursing,23(1), pp.82-89.

Continuous Improvement Balanced Scorecard

Question: Discuss about the Continuous Improvement for Balanced Scorecard. Answer: Introduction Continuous improvement is a process of providing ongoing efforts aimed at delivering better services, products and processes. Continuous improvement is achieved through a well laid out plan, which provides the direction of progress as well as measure the achieved progress. the continues improvement plan helps in assessing the areas that need attention as well as provide a variety of options on the incremental efforts that can be made to improve the situation(Bakerjian, 2012). A well-structured continuous improvement plan consists of four steps, mainly. Plan, do, study and act. Planning is the first step that explains how the improvements will take place. It contains details of various actions intended to achieve the improvements. Do is the second step that involves implementing the plan or putting the plan into action. Study involves evaluating the progress of the implemented plan and noting the shortcomings of the plan and the areas that require changes. This step is mostly concerned with safety issues involving the adoption of the plan. When the plan has minimal negative impacts it is considered as favorable, on the other hand when it a lot of negative affects it is unfavorable. Act is the last step that involves approving or going back to the drawing board. When the plan is favorable, the organization will consider implementing the plan to other departments. In the case study that is to be analyzed from Queensland government, the essay will elaborate on how the continuous improvement plan is necessary and the changes that the program requires (Adamson, 2017). Literature review According to Swamidass et al, continuous improvement in organizations mostly focuses on time management and quality management that hope to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in work processes. Baghel defines continuous improvement as culture of sustained improvements by organization that targets the elimination of waste in all the systems of an organization Jegerson views continuous improvement as an initiative that increases the organization success and reduces failure. Continuous improvement is also known as kaizen a Japanese word that stands for sustained improvement for elimination of waste entirely in all the systems of an organization Kossof mentions that, total quality management is aimed at continuous improvement, by engaging the available knowledge and experience in the management level as well as the employees level. Kossof, further explains that the process of continuous improvement involves the entire organization members working together to realize the improvemen ts without really making any capital investments. The improvements take place because of new technology or new technology that revolutionizes the way of doing things. huge improvements are realized due to small incremental improvements that have out to use various techniques and tools that are aimed at finding ways to reduce wastage fill variation gaps and pinpoint the sources of the problems. Kossof argues that for organizations to be able to compete effectively in the global economy, they to emphasize on continuous improvement that harbor total quality management (Fischer, 2016). TQM is aimed at reducing cost, reduced wastage, trimmed production lines and increased manufacturing speed. Effective continuous improvement progress according to Kossof can be realized by applying the continuous improvement methodologies known as the six sigma they include, lean production, balanced score card, total quality management, reengineering, quick response manufacturing and lean sigma (Hodgetts , 2011). Lean production is the elimination of waste during production or manufacturing. Balanced score card refers to the strategic plan that is adopted y organization to align its activities alongside its vision. Lean sigma is the cooperation of the whole organization team to achieve improvements (Larson, 2013). The continuous improvement plan The initiative by the government to funds specialist homelessness services and complementary housing programs which work towards assisting homeless people to access housing to ensure. The program has taken a step further to ensure affordable housing is provided as well as proper lifestyle standards are maintained. To ensure the efficiency and effectiveness through the use of continuous improvement tools, the plan in place incorporates the following areas, engineering and construction, it telecom software, financial and business services as well as welfare domain. In engineering and construction, a series of set out guidelines are highlighted in the plan that is aimed to produce the best customer services to the homeless. Such guidelines include invitation process guidelines, information disclosure on the offer as well as alternative offers (Ross, 2017). In the telecom domain, the plan has shallowly touched on the subject. The domain is also crucial as it support the other four domain s of the continuous improvement program. the it domain according to the plan seems to be given the back seat as the plan highlights that it is considered through a one off capital improvement fund. The financial and business domain is well catered for as it includes the plan on where the funds are to be obtained from, way in which additional funding can be made possible and the requirement from the supplier on financial grounds who wishes to engage in business with the program. The welfare domain is the last one which also is made possible through the realization of the other three domains (Rothwell and kazanas, 2009). Welfare will be brought about due to proper management of funds allocated in the program, where they ensure that all areas are properly financed. Proper innovation in construction will lead to proper housing as well as reduced cost of construction. proper security and welfare will be made possible by the facilitation of it telecom software domain that is to ensure pro per security as well as proper storage of the data collected from other domains as well as the data from the implementation of the program. Continuous improvement in this case involves the implementation of measures that minimize the wastage of resources as well as enhance the service deliver (Sarkar, 2011). such measures are observed by the pooling of various disciplines knowledge, e.g. innovation that provides creative response to address the daily needs of homeless people, the responses are aimed at providing means for self-reliance upon which improvements are made to e ale to capture the entire population of the homeless people. The program is also engaged in social initiatives with organizations that are able to demonstrate commercial viability so that they can create social value within the homeless society (Singhal, 2017). Apart from the above mentioned initiatives the homeless settlement program has set aside capital improvements that aim at improving quality and variety of services. The services may include installation of extra security facilities such as fencing and cameras. The program has put in place evaluation criteria that are set to evaluate the performance of the various stakeholders that are championing the homeless resettlement program. The criterion has put down several guidelines that are in line with the effort of treating the homeless with dignity (Sloan and Sloan, 2011).The guidelines in the innovation part highlights that, it should look forward to providing dignity to people experiencing homelessness, provide new ideas and improvements on existing service. The innovation should provide the capability to deliver as well as demonstrate a response to economic benefits to the homeless. The planned program provides a structure that asks the involved stake holders to promptly act as soon as the budgeted fund is available. Apart from readiness the plan considers how the $ 2, 000, 0000 funds allocation is to r managed. The plan outlines the arrangements of funding and its handling such as start-up money not being used to start up fund raising but used to fund programs that can drive fund raising. To ensure marginal benefits from service delivery, the plan includes a section that highlights the guidelines to be adhered to in order to realize the value of money; the guidelines state that the value to be offered by any particular organization may leverage extra outcomes from other services. A detailed budget ought to be provided by the supplier to show that it is sufficient to manage the proposed activity for resettling the homeless as well as how the supplier can respond to changes in sustaining the services beyond the initial funding (smallbusiness.chron.com, 2017). The continuous improvement process (PDCA cycle) implementation The above plan details are structured in a way that they are ready to work with any part of the program that will arise first, however a well thought out plan should be undertaken in phases whereby the financial and business service domain is prioritized and given the first priority in that the sources of finance are identified, the required finance for the project is realized so that the plan can move to the next domain which is engineering and ruction the construction and engineering domain is to be considered the first one , this involves material suppliers as well as those supplying the labour force for the construction. The third domain is the telecom and software domain in which, part of it, like the software part should run parallel to the above domains as it helps in storage of data, testing of innovation models as well as show the progress of the project. The rest of the domain comes at the end of the project. The domain helps also in evaluation of the implemented project as it provides platforms upon which data is analysed. The welfare domain is the bigger picture that all other domains are aligning to achieve. This domain is mostly involved with the lifestyle that the homeless people will get as a result of the implementation of the project. Therefore the domain comes last and also acts as a measure on the service delivery improvement. The diagram above shows how the implementation of the plan ought to take place, it is evident that the telecom software domain acts as the base of the other domains as it is used to store data as well as provide communication platforms. From the plan the program is set to proceed to the next step which is do this step involves implementing the plan, whereby a group of the homeless people are subjected to the implementation. The implementation at this stage is aimed to establish the viability of the plan as well as the various areas that may seem to develop unbearable obstacles. Also at this stage is where the homeless population get to reject the changes that are brought about by the plan (Tomas, 2011). The third step is the studying, evaluation or checking step, the step is usually focussed on evaluating the progress of the evaluation as well as making slight changes that increase the implementation. studying at this point considers the implementation as a pilot project upon which further research can be launched considering a particular subject, such as why are the homeless people; leaving for the streets while renting out the houses they have been settled in? This might prompt a research into what the homeless pe ople hold dear or to what they regard to be a home (Search manufacturing erp, 2017). The fourth step is the action step; this step is arrived at after considering all the outcomes and feedback that have come about from the implementation of the plan. This stage mostly has two options depending on the outcomes from step three, revise the faulty plan or implement the successful plan into other areas that have the homeless population. The revision of the plan is then again taken through the pdca (Plan, do, check and act). The successful continuous improvement plan is spread to other regions to aid the resettlement of the homeless people. The continuous improvement does not just stop at successful implementation but rather requires continuous evaluations which are determined at pinpointing areas that might require improvements or at times be outdated by technology (Balancedscorecard.org, 2017). Change management The continuous improvement plan requires an assessment of the program and identification of the areas that need continuous improvement. The next step is to lay down a detailed strategy on how the change will take place. Implementation stage follows which requires putting the plan into action. Monitoring the implementation process is the next stage, which identifies areas that need change as well as rally the involved stakeholders to minimize the resistance to change. Finally, putting up measures and conducting occasional evaluation is the last stage that ensures the continuation of continuous improvement. Conclusion A continuous improvement plan is tedious to structure leave alone implementing. The plan requires the opinions and concerns of all the stakeholders who will help actualize the plan. The planning process involves many details, aimed at making sure that chances of failure are minimized to the least. After the plan is in place, the second toughest stage is the implementation stage. The stage encounters a lot challenges including rejection by the targeted subjects who do not have the knowledge to understand the benefits that are brought about by the implementation of the plan. The best thing is that as the implementation goes on the subject get to comprehend and support the implementation. The housing program, funded by the Queensland government needs to embrace the use of continuous improvement plan in order to ensure that the services they are providing will be improving day by day. The Japanese word kaizen acknowledges that the improvement can be downwards that is from the management to employees or upwards from employees to management. in a similar manner, all the domains that are making the housing program successful that is engineering and construction, it telecom software, welfare, financial and business service, need to work together to realize the improvement of services. 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Compare and Contrast Essay Sample For Teacher and Student

Compare and Contrast Essay Sample For Teacher and StudentIt is time to compare and contrast essay samples for teacher and student. Nowadays, it is more common for students to write essays as they are the only way of expression that they have.This has led to the standard that differentiates the writing style from each other - there is a 'common language' when you look at essay samples, which is probably the reason why students are so confused as to what they should write. The following two guidelines will help you choose an essay sample that is to your liking.Teach: It is not very easy to figure out what your students really think. If you cannot make the writing style according to their own style, you would just be putting up a barrier that is going to hamper their development as writers. In order to do this, you should have essays that are very similar to one another.This is the difference between teaching and learning. You can teach as many students as you want, but at the end of th e day, only one student is going to benefit from what you have taught them. You cannot expect them to understand something you wrote if you did not teach them.Themes: Once you figure out the style that your students prefer, it would then be better to think about what is your theme? Some students like learning, some would love to write theses, while others like both. A good way to make sure that your theme is to choose some topic that fits your style and then decide which topic you want to cover in your sample.Read: You need to read a bit before you actually start teaching. You need to know how you would like your students to learn from the essay samples that you are going to use. If you don't have enough time, you can read it before you start to teach.The key to excel in elementary school is to make sure that you have essays samples that are properly written and well organized. You can always do this by comparing and contrasting essay samples for teacher and student.

Thin Layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography free essay sample

Introduction Chromatography is a technique used to separate a mixture into its individual components. In this experiment, chromatography is done by using a thin layer chromatography (TLC) plate and filter paper. The word ‘chromatography’ itself means the separation of colours. However, nowadays, both coloured and colourless compound are used in chromatography by various methods. In chromatography, the separation process of mixture is mainly based upon the polarity and molecular weight of sample. Then, the separation involves mobile phase and stationary phase. The mixture to be separated is applied to an immovable solid surface, which is the stationary phase, such as TLC plate and the filter paper. Then, suitable solvent is then added to ‘wash’ the porous solid by the flow of solvent, which is the mobile phase. The mobile phase can be liquid (in liquid chromatography) which is in this experiment, or gas (as in gas chromatography). The porous solid, which is the stationary phase, adsorbs different substances depending on the polarity of the substance adsorbed to it. We will write a custom essay sample on Thin Layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page The term â€Å"adsorption† means the adhesion or stickyness of a substance to the surface of another substance. As mentioned, chromatography is based on polarity. So, a mixture of compound is separated or adsorbed differently on porous solid (stationary phase) based on the polarity of both the compound itself and also the stationary phase. By the concept of â€Å"like attracts like†, a polar stationary phase will adsorb a polar components more strongly than a non-polar component, which also indicates that a non-polar components will be removed along the solvent more easily and faster than the polar compounds. It is the same case as where a polar solvent is used. The polar component will be moved along the solvent more quickly and hence, leave behind the non-polar component which is move more slowly and removed later. The solvent (mobile phase) moves through the stationary phase (porous solid) by capillary action. The solvent ‘attracts’ or pulls the molecules of mixture, which is then separated at different rates. Molecular weight also affects the separation of mixture into its components. Components having higher molecular weight will be left behind. In contrast, component of lowest molecular weight will be the fastest to be removed. Part 1: TLC analysis of analgesic drugs Method 1. Prepare a TLC plate with measurement shown in figure. Diagram A developing chamber was developed in a 250 mL beaker, with a half-piece of filter paper inside, and aluminium foil to cover. The eluent is a 15 mL mixture of 2:1 mixture of ethyl acetate: hexane. 3. The eluent must not exceed depth of 1 cm in the beaker. 5 drops of acetic acid was added into the beaker and mix. The TLC plate was then placed in the beaker and ensured the solvent level is below the pencil mark. 4. After the solvent was risen to near the top of the plate, the plate was removed and the solvent front was marked with a pencil. The solvent was allowed to evaporate in the fume hood. 5. By using 5 different capillary tubes for 5 different samples, the sample was spot on the origin line. The sequence from the left (first spot) is acetaminophen solution, caffeine, unknown A, aspirin and unknown B. 6. The TLC plate was then placed in the iodine chamber for few minutes. 7. The plate was then observed under UV lamp. 8. The spot was outlined with a 2B pencil. 9. The plate was then sketched and the retention factor, Rf value is calculated. 10. The unknown drug based on the Rf value is determined. Apparatus

George Fredrick Handel essays

George Fredrick Handel essays George Frederick Handel was a great musician of the Baroque Period. Handel was born in 1685. He lived most of his younger life in Halle, Germany. Georges birthday was on February 23rd, and then was baptized the next day. On October 6th, 1687, Handels first sister was born. Her name was Dorothea Sophia Handel. On January 10th, 1690, Handels second sister was born. Her name was Johanna Christina Handel. When Handel was older, (about twelve) his father died at the age of seventy-five. A few years after this death, Handel started college at the University of Halle studying law. At this time, George Handel started to find his nick for music and composing. Handel would not become very famous though until he moved to Hamburg and London. In the year 1703, Handel abandons his study of law at the university and moves to Hamburg. While in Hamburg, Handel starts playing the violin under the watchful eye of Keisler. In the next few years, Handel makes many close friendships with other musicians. Now this is the time when Handel starts in heavily on writing plays and operas. Handel has written many operas. Some of his more famous operas are Israel in Egypt, Jephtha, Messiah, Water Dance, The Heroick, Mr. Handel, and Teseo. George Handel has been known as one of the best composers in the world. He was known as a great organist and harpsichord player. He was also known to have an explosive temperment. Handel has a simple view towards life and faith. Handel also has been given credit for changing Italian Opera to a very popular event. There will probably never be any man that is as great or as well known for their composing and musical ability. ...

Climate, geography, income per capita and growth Literature review

Climate, geography, income per capita and growth - Literature review Example Geography and environment has a closer impact on socio-economic development of a region. Historical data has revealed that geography has some effect on shaping the economic history. However, the amount of variance is an important consideration. Tropics are varied by braod climatic zones and economies as well (Torres & Mendez, 2000; 2002, Inter-American Development Bank, 2000). As a result, the research would identify the key geographical and climatic factors from the national database and analyze its relationship with income per person longitudinal data for a time period of 1950 to 2014. This paper will analyze this variance to test and interpret the condition of multicollinearity using a regression analysis, as some geographical factors might be highly correlated impacting the ultimate results. Analyzing the relationship between the major geographical features, such as altitude, climate, topography on the economic growth and prosperity with individual municipal incomes and their inequalities. Previous research has established a close relationship between economic development and geographical characteristics, such as topography, altitude, precipitation, temperature and rainfall etc., of a region. In this pretext, the tropical economies have lower income levels and growth rates than rest of the world. Temperate regions are more prosperous in this respect. The impact of geography on economic performance was considered exogenous for a very long time by economists (Rodrik & Trebbi, 2004). In fact there are direct channels influencing the effect of geography on productivity (Fujita, Krugman & Venables, 1999; Gallup, Sachs & Mellinger, 1999), in terms of productivity of primary activities, such as agriculture, farming, mining, fishing and forestry (Safford & Palacios, 2002). The classical Malthusian theory has stressed on how extremes of climate and temperature might diminish the productivity of labor as a consequence of spillovers and positive

Military Corporate Culture Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1250 words

Military Corporate Culture - Essay Example Groups play a significant role in a soldier motivational aspect. In these groups, the members will attempt to invent ways that will ensure the success of the group. For instance, it is necessary to invent new strategies that are capable of ensuring victory. These groups act as family to the soldier and will instigate corrective measures whenever necessary. These bonds created in the groups are sufficient to motivate the group. As a leader, it is vital to encourage the creation of these groups and join them. As evidenced before, most acts of heroism done by soldiers are attributed to the functioning and cohesion of these groups. In a group, one is confident that colleagues watch over you while you do the same to them.Rewarding individuals after successive completion of an assigned duty is considered as a motivating factor in encouraging continuous undertaking of assignments. Rewards have been continuously been utilized to continuously encourage positive behavior and mentality. There a re several ways that can be used to reward successful soldiers. Certification, bonuses, rank promotions and awards are useful. However, punishment for unwarranted behavior should never be ignored. Military code of ethics guides the behavior and conduct of the military. These code of ethics are specifically spelled out in the Department of Defense Regulations 5500,7-R. Chapter 2 of these regulations specifically dwells on the standards of ethical conducts and is directed at all the security departments and personnel.