Discussion board #1Some experts say that since it is impossible to predict who will be violent, there is not much employers can do to prevent violence in the workplace. Do you agree or disagree with this position? Why, or why not? Explain your rationale, and offer ways that employers can prevent workplace violence.Respond to post:Not really knowing anyone who has worked in a union, but it  seems in some states, it is necessary to have a union as workers. The benefits of being unionized have been exceptional for the employees being given bargaining power during negotiations to being shielded from unjust termination and power during strikes. During negotiations, the one in a better position is likely to win. In the case of unionized employees, they get a representation as a block and hence have the bargaining power. They can push for better wages and salaries, a better and safe working environment, and more benefits. These are privileges that all the employees would wish to have and hence need unionization . Also, when the employers and the unions sign a collective bargaining agreement, it shields employees from unjust termination or unreasonable layoffs of employees. This immunity cannot be given without the agreement. Therefore, unions are highly needed by employees to enjoy job security, and termination has to have a cause. Focusing on the employers, unions have been a disadvantageous trend because they feel that as much as it takes care of their needs in terms of productivity and employee turnover, they have lost power over the employees and are left at their mercy. Through the bargaining power that employees enjoy having been unionized, they can push for the benefits and pay they need. Employers can no longer decide which amount to pay the employee under the working conditions they want. This is, therefore, the main reason why employers resist them so strongly.Discussion board # 2If you were an entrepreneur looking to open a new company, what do you think would be the biggest benefit to researching case studies of other companies in the same industry? Why?Respond to post # 2A good long-term strategy and consistent implementation are necessary for a company to be competitive (Finnie, 1997). The strategy implementation phase has three steps 1) programs and tactics, 2) bugets and 3) procedures. Strategy implemation is primarily about how the goals set by the company will be achieved. Each of these steps are vital to the process. Programs and tactics identifies methods that can be used to achieve goals, the budget allocates the funds for achieving the goals and of  course procedures provide the structure for how they will be accomplished. So it is hard for me to determine which one has more importance because each step is necessary. 

The FlashIt happened one day, at a crossroads, in the middle of a crowd, people coming and going.       I stopped, blinked: suddenly I understood nothing. Nothing, nothing about anything: I did not understand the reasons for things or for people, it was all senseless, absurd. I laughed.       What I found strange at the time was that I had never realized before; that up until then I had accepted everything: traffic lights, cars, posters, uniforms, monuments, things completely detached from any sense of the world, accepted them as if there were some necessity, some chain of cause and effect that bound them together.       Then my laugh died. I blushed, ashamed. I waved to get people’s attention. “Stop a moment!” I shouted, “there is something wrong! Everything is wrong! We are doing the absurdest things! This cannot be the right way! Where can it end?”       People stopped around me, sized me up, curious. I stood there in the middle of them, waving my arms, desperate to explain myself, to have them share the flash of insight that had suddenly enlightened me: and I said nothing. I said nothing because the moment I had raised my arms and opened my mouth, my great revelation had been as it were swallowed up again and the words had come out any old how, on impulse.       “So?” people asked, “what do you mean? Everything is in its place. All is as it should be. Everything is a result of something else. Everything fits in with everything else. We cannot see anything wrong or absurd.”       I stood there, lost, because as I saw it now everything had fallen into place again and everything seemed normal, traffic lights, monuments, uniforms, towerblocks, tramlines, beggars, processions; yet this did not calm me, it tormented me.       “I am sorry,” I said. “Perhaps it was I who was wrong. It seemed that way then. But everything is fine now. I am sorry.” And I made off amid their angry glares.       Yet, even now, every time (and it is often) that I find I do not understand something, then, instinctively, I am filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp the other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.Italo Calvino, from Numbers in the DarkQuestionsWhat point of view is the story told from?What is the climax of the story?Define revelation. What do you think the protagonist’s revelation was? Why does he say nothing?How do the people passing by respond to the protagonist?Why does the protagonist then feel “tormented”?Have you ever had a moment of clarity or an epiphany in which things suddenly make sense and you have some sort of insight into the world or life? Explain.