Case Study: The Corning Journey to Performance Excellence Part 1 and 2. This week we have learned that performance excellence, sometimes referred to as business excellence, refers to increasing the consumer’s perception of value and a focused responsibility on the part of organizational members to quickly identify and correct problems. Operational/Performance excellence includes a series of intangible assets that will allow companies to continuously improve in areas of performance and quality that create a competitive advantage for organizations. This supports the theory that while the consumer may play a part in identifying quality issues, the organizational stakeholder has a responsibility for quality and is an important factor in performance and operational excellence. This is also aligned with the concept that all stakeholders share in the benefits of business and performance excellence. This case study is an examination of the renewal of quality at Corning in the decade since 2002. It is a story of quality, innovation, operating excellence, and renewal, but above all, it is a story of leadership. The great companies overcome the obstacles, and the poor companies fall by the wayside. Review the Case Study: The Corning Journey to Performance Excellence Part 1 and 2. (http://asq.org/knowledge-center/case-studies-corning.html) Through research from sources provided in the course and from academic and scholarly resources outside of the course, evaluate and discuss the following elements: 1. Discuss the impact of leadership on improving and increasing the quality and performance excellence at Corning. 2. What elements of the Corning case study do you feel could be applied in your current or a former organization where you are or have been a member? 3. Discuss how Corning’s strategies meet the standards of continual improvement for performance excellence (Evans, 2017, pg. 33). The paper should contain the following APA formatted elements: 1. Title Page. 2. Abstract. 3. Body of the essay (Your researched response). 4. Conclusion. 5. References Section. The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded: 1. Write a response between 750 – 1000 words for the body of the essay (The title page, abstract, conclusion and References section are not counted toward the word requirement.) (approximately 4-6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style. 2. Address all three elements fully. 3. Use font size 12 and 1” margins. 4. Use at least three references from outside the course material (You may use the academic resources included in the Week 8 Bibliography.) one reference must be from EBSCOhost. The course textbook and lectures can be used, but are not counted toward the five reference requirement. 5. References must come from sources such as, academic and scholarly journals and essays found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yah.

1. Case Study: The Corning Journey to Performance Excellence
Part 1 and 2.
This week we have learned that performance excellence,
sometimes referred to as business excellence, refers to
increasing the consumer’s perception of value and a focused
responsibility on the part of organizational members to quickly
identify and correct problems. Operational/Performance
excellence includes a series of intangible assets that will allow
companies to continuously improve in areas of performance and
quality that create a competitive advantage for organizations.
This supports the theory that while the consumer may play a
part in identifying quality issues, the organizational stakeholder
has a responsibility for quality and is an important factor in
performance and operational excellence. This is also aligned
with the concept that all stakeholders share in the benefits of
business and performance excellence.
This case study is an examination of the renewal of quality at
Corning in the decade since 2002. It is a story of quality,
innovation, operating excellence, and renewal, but above all, it
is a story of leadership. The great companies overcome the
obstacles, and the poor companies fall by the wayside.
Review the Case Study: The Corning Journey to Performance
Excellence Part 1 and 2. (http://asq.org/knowledge-center/case-
studies-corning.html)
Through research from sources provided in the course and from
academic and scholarly resources outside of the course, evaluate
and discuss the following elements:
1. Discuss the impact of leadership on improving and increasing
the quality and performance excellence at Corning.

2. 2. What elements of the Corning case study do you feel could be
applied in your current or a former organization where you are
or have been a member?
3. Discuss how Corning’s strategies meet the standards of
continual improvement for performance excellence (Evans,
2017, pg. 33).
The paper should contain the following APA formatted
elements:
1. Title Page.
2. Abstract.
3. Body of the essay (Your researched response).
4. Conclusion.
5. References Section.
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be
accepted and graded:
1. Write a response between 750 – 1000 words for the body of
the essay (The title page, abstract, conclusion and References
section are not counted toward the word requirement.)
(approximately 4-6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style.
2. Address all three elements fully.
3. Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
4. Use at least three references from outside the course material
(You may use the academic resources included in the Week 8

3. Bibliography.) one reference must be from EBSCOhost. The
course textbook and lectures can be used, but are not counted
toward the five reference requirement.
5. References must come from sources such as, academic and
scholarly journals and essays found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online
newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government
websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow,
blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
6. Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes,
paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a
reference page in APA style. Provide citations everywhere
information from the sources is used for foundational support
and for validation of opinions.
7. Use the third person narrative and avoid the use of the first
and second person narrative and terms such as; I, me, myself,
you, your, yourself, we or us (or related form such as let’s (let
us) or we’ll, we’ve (we will / we have) among others). This will
prevent the author or other parties from becoming the subject
matter and will maintain the focus of the paper on the central
theme and subject matter found in the elements.
8. Be informational and avoid being conversational.
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4. Gender Inequality
Tamara Golson
GEN 499: General Education Capstone
Dr. Essex
January 7, 2019
Gender Inequality
Gender inequality is real. Did you know that the world over,
violence on gender is one of
the leading causes of deaths and disabilities among females? It
is more shocking because it kills
more than cancer, road accidents, war and malaria. Inequality
research is a broad aspect that
cannot be exhausted. It has been researched world over by
different researchers and
recommendations issued but it is still thriving in today’s world.
Even though there are
inequalities and injustices to the male gender, the female gender
has suffered more and is still
suffering bias in different aspects of life. Different statistics as
found in the Oxfam New Zealand
website indicates that about 60% of the world’s hungry people
are female (women and girls) and

5. about 2/3 of all children who are denied education are girls with
over 876million of the world’s
population being illiterate women.
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Regarding political and leadership positions, women hold about
21% of the parliamentary
seats and 6% own the ministerial posts. Other areas that
inequalities thrive in women are
violence, negligence, poor healthcare services especially during
childbirth and expectancy

7. among other injustices. Due to such shocking statistics, there is
a need for continued research on
this topic until such a time when every part of the world has
realized at least a reasonable
percentage of equal opportunities and treatment to both males
and females.
This project seeks to answer the question; should men and
women be treated as equals?
This will be achieved by thoroughly researching and coming up
with recommendation based on
this thesis statement; While Women can never equal Men,
gender equality should be encouraged
to empower the female gender and contribute positively to
wellbeing of all people because an
empowered female gender would lead to a better world. It
would greatly impact the economy
positively and all people desire equal treatment irrespective of
their gender.
Annotated Bibliography
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. (n.d.).
Poverty and Inequality. AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 27.
This is a journal article that consists of different blog series
written by different authors

8. and their source of information referenced after each article.
They majorly talk about
different types of inequalities and how they have affected the
lives of the people affected
as well as the economy as a whole. It looks at the war on
poverty fifty years after it was
started and how inequality has contributed to poverty. It also
looks at some of the
contributing factors to poverty as being stigma, stereotyping
and discrimination. it also
highlights some of the research findings which can aid in
alleviation of poverty among
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them safe housing, adequate nutrition, affordable healthcare,
good education and
financial freedom.

10. This piece is important for my project because it will help me
understand how poverty is
a social inequality and why it should be tackled if at all we are
to win the fight against
poverty in the world.
Berman, Y., Eshel, B.-J., & Yoash , S. (2016). The Dynamics of
Wealth Inequality and the Effect
of Income Distribution. PLOS.
Berman et al talks about the shocking news about the increasing
wealth inequality in the
recent years. The research titled The Dynamics of Wealth
Inequality and the Effect of
Income Distribution aims at researching about the underlying
causes of such inequalities
upon which their findings can be used by policy makers and
other stakeholders to control
and reverse the alarming trend. The research is uses a
theoretical approach that is aimed
at showing the contributing factors and how they have affected
the wealth and income
inequality. It is an article that deals with one specific issue of
inequality and how it can
best be dealt with.

11. I find it useful to my project because it will help me understand
how wealth inequality
has come about and what is not being done right to reverse the
trend despite
recommendations by scholars and other researchers in the same
field. The researchers are
credible and therefore using their information as a source for
my project makes it credible
as well.
EQUALITY.ORG. (n.d.). Gender Inequality; Men dominate the
top of the economic summit
while women are saddled with debt and poverty. Retrieved from
INEQUALITY.ORG:
https://inequality.org/gender-inequality/
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This is a site that has been tackling inequality related research
stories for over two
decades. It has been a source of news for different stakeholders

15. among them researchers,
activists, and journalists. It deals with policy studies and
provides insights on how best to
understand the inequalities in the world and how we can best
alleviate such inequalities.
It highlights inequalities like gender income gaps, gender
wealth gaps, gender poverty
gaps, transgender economic gaps among others. For each type of
inequality, statistical
information is provided.
This source will be crucial for my project because it gives
details about different
inequalities in the world especially among the discriminated
gender and also give
statistical data on the same. This is crucial information for me
because it will make me
better understand where the world stands in the fight against
inequality. It will also help
me get scientific backing on the rates of inequalities in the
world today and this is crucial
information for any researcher.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. (n.d.). EQUALITY:
WHY IT MATTERS.

16. Retrieved from SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment
The United Nations has been on the forefront in the fight
against inequalities and other
injustices to humanity. The article focuses on several types of
inequalities like those
based on sex, gender, ethnicity, income, disabilities among
others. It also talks about the
end product of such inequalities among them being crime,
diseases and economic
degradation. The article also talks about the need for every
person to fight inequality
whether they are affected or not. This is because if this is not
eradicated, it will affect us
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indirect. The article also gives recommendations on what can be
done in dealing with this
societal issue of inequality across the globe.
The article is of importance to me because it talks about the
inequalities I intend to focus
on in my project and this article will help me in getting the
desired insights and data on
the same. It will help me understand the different stakeholders
needed in the fight against
inequality and the best ways to approach them on this issue. UN
being a globally
recognized body especially in the advocacy to humanity and

19. human well-being is a great
source of information for every researcher dealing with issues
that are part of their core
values.
The social evils series. (2008). Five types of inequality. The
social evils series.
This is a journal article that talks about the five types of
inequalities in our society today.
Found in the website named The social evils series, found in the
JRF’s website and
authored by Ferdinand Mount, these social evils are centered on
inequality and the
discussion seeks on informing the public on how to rectify these
types of inequalities.
Article focuses on Britain and shows how such inequalities have
led to more damage
rather than good to the country. These inequalities revolve
around the politics, outcomes,
opportunities, treatment and social belonging. According to the
author, the inequalities
have created a world divided between “uppers” and “lowers”.
The author explains in
details about each kind of inequality and a the end of the article
he gives his view point

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This source of information becomes crucial to my project as it
is well detailed and
includes other kinds of inequalities not found in the other
sources annotated herein. It
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broadens my scope of recommendations and gives an avenue of
learning other kinds of
inequalities that might be experienced in our world today.
References
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. (n.d.).
Poverty and Inequality. AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 27.
Berman, Y., Eshel, B.-J., & Yoash , S. (2016). The Dynamics of
Wealth Inequality and the Effect
of Income Distribution. PLOS.
INEQUALITY.ORG. (n.d.). Gender Inequality; Men dominate
the top of the economic summit
while women are saddled with debt and poverty. Retrieved from
INEQUALITY.ORG:
https://inequality.org/gender-inequality/
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. (n.d.). EQUALITY:
WHY IT MATTERS. Retrieved
from SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment

23. The social evils series. (2008). Five types of inequality. The
social evils series.
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