Primary Keyword Phrase: travelling tips for pregnant women.
Secondary Keyword Phrase: travelling while you are pregnant.
This article is written in American English. In a style suited to the web.
Travelling Tips for Pregnant Women.
Pregnant women sometimes need to travel over long distances (occasionally to an international destination even) to attend a family event or fulfill work commitments. Perhaps, you just want to enjoy a vacation before the baby comes along and brings added responsibilities. In such situations, it is natural to be concerned about the risks associated with travelling while you are pregnant. This article might help put your mind at ease by offering a few travelling tips for pregnant women.
Important Travelling Tips for Pregnant Women
1. Pay attention to the signs provided by your body. Try to connect with your body and ‘feel’ what it is telling you. Does your body feel fatigued, sick, dehydrated, swollen or sore all over? If your body feels like it won’t be able to handle a long distance trip, it is probably best to postpone it. However, if you find yourself enjoying the thought of getting to the destination and look forward to it with pleasant anticipation, go ahead and consult your gynecologist.
2. Discuss your travel plans with your doctor even if you are feeling fine. If the doctor advises you against travelling, do not put up a fight. Remember your doctor is the expert!
3. When your health care professional gives you a ‘go ahead,’ ask for the contact information of a medical professional located in the city/area you are going to visit.
4. Make two copies of your medical documents. File one neatly with your main luggage. Carry another copy on your person tucked away in a purse or handbag. If you get in an accident this information might turn out to be a lifesaver. Ensure the file contains information about the details of your last prenatal check-up, information about allergic reactions to specific drugs, any health conditions you might be suffering from or medication you are currently on.
5. Remember to add a neatly typed page of emergency contact information. This should include names and phone numbers of family and friends who need to be alerted in case of an emergency. Also add your health insurance details and the contact number of your health care professional at home.
6. Go ahead; book tickets! When travelling in an airplane or train attempt to book a seat that provides quick and easy access to the rest room. While travelling in a car or bus, make sure there are enough restroom breaks at regular intervals.
7. While on the move, stretch your legs, rotate your ankles and wiggle your toes to prevent cramps. Carry water proof bags to deal with morning sickness and a small pillow to support your back.
8. When travelling while you are pregnant wear your seat belt. This is perhaps the most important among all other travelling tips for pregnant women. Make sure the lap belt is placed below the belly. In a car turn on the Air Bag feature. As the popular saying goes, “The best way to protect your unborn baby, is to protect yourself!”
As an expecting mother it is natural to feel concerned. But remember, today we have efficient transport systems in place and access to quality health care is easily available at most tourist and business destinations around the world. So travelling while you are pregnant generally turns out to be a safe experience for most women. Hope these travelling tips for pregnant women helped clear some doubts. Go ahead! Enjoy travelling.
Note: This article was created as a sample for a potential freelance writing job offer. It is included here because 1) I never heard from the client ever again 2) I spent considerable time and effort creating it. 3) I did not receive any monetary compensation for this article. 4) I never signed any agreement or contract restricting me from using this piece later in my career as I saw fit.
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By
Sandhya Joseph
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Non-Cash Incentives
Primary Keyword: Non-Cash Incentives.
Secondary Keyword: Employee Motivation, Cash Incentives.
This article is written in American English in a style suited to the web.
Non-Cash Incentives
An organization’s employee pool is perhaps its most important asset. To ensure continued growth, the organization needs to initiate schemes that improve employee motivation. Such schemes should include both Cash Incentives and Non-Cash Incentives.
Cash incentives like annual bonus and salary increments induce employees to contribute to an organization’s development. Modern Human Resource Executives, however, have begun to realize that tough Cash Incentives are still held in high esteem, Non-Cash Incentives also play an important role in boosting the morale of employees. In fact, they sometimes work better.
Non-Cash incentives include both Recognition Rewards and Performance Based Rewards.
Recognition Rewards
Employees are human. Every human being desires to feel special and valued. Recognition Rewards show a worker that the company values the special skills he possesses. These awards include:
• A verbal thank you.
• A personalized note/email sent by a superior complimenting the employee on a job done well.
• Declaring a worker as employee of the month and other similar tactics.
A Recognition Reward acts as an effective non-cash incentive since such acts fulfill an employee’s innate need to feel appreciated.
Performance Rewards
These include merchandise like mobile phones, television sets or expensive watches. Such products are gifted to employees who meet a required sales target or manage to exceed the target. These rewards are usually announced in advance. Performance Rewards tap into a person’s natural competitive spirit. They encourage employees to strive to meet required targets. Instead of merchandise, some organizations offer an all expense paid trip to an exotic location, concert tickets or something similar.
Along with rewards other miscellaneous factors also ensure employee motivation. These factors prevent an employee from seeking employment elsewhere and encourage him or her to work for the company’s growth. For example, organizations can boost the morale of an employee by:
• Making the employee perceive the job as a huge learning opportunity.
• Providing ample scope for professional, personal and intellectual growth.
• Offering flexible working hours that allow employees to deal with family obligations, socialize with friends or indulge in creative hobbies.
Ultimately, if an organization wants to extract quality work from its staff, it needs to view each employee as an asset, and design a combination of Cash and Non-Cash Incentives to improve employee motivation.
By
Sandhya Joseph
Secondary Keyword: Employee Motivation, Cash Incentives.
This article is written in American English in a style suited to the web.
Non-Cash Incentives
An organization’s employee pool is perhaps its most important asset. To ensure continued growth, the organization needs to initiate schemes that improve employee motivation. Such schemes should include both Cash Incentives and Non-Cash Incentives.
Cash incentives like annual bonus and salary increments induce employees to contribute to an organization’s development. Modern Human Resource Executives, however, have begun to realize that tough Cash Incentives are still held in high esteem, Non-Cash Incentives also play an important role in boosting the morale of employees. In fact, they sometimes work better.
Non-Cash incentives include both Recognition Rewards and Performance Based Rewards.
Recognition Rewards
Employees are human. Every human being desires to feel special and valued. Recognition Rewards show a worker that the company values the special skills he possesses. These awards include:
• A verbal thank you.
• A personalized note/email sent by a superior complimenting the employee on a job done well.
• Declaring a worker as employee of the month and other similar tactics.
A Recognition Reward acts as an effective non-cash incentive since such acts fulfill an employee’s innate need to feel appreciated.
Performance Rewards
These include merchandise like mobile phones, television sets or expensive watches. Such products are gifted to employees who meet a required sales target or manage to exceed the target. These rewards are usually announced in advance. Performance Rewards tap into a person’s natural competitive spirit. They encourage employees to strive to meet required targets. Instead of merchandise, some organizations offer an all expense paid trip to an exotic location, concert tickets or something similar.
Along with rewards other miscellaneous factors also ensure employee motivation. These factors prevent an employee from seeking employment elsewhere and encourage him or her to work for the company’s growth. For example, organizations can boost the morale of an employee by:
• Making the employee perceive the job as a huge learning opportunity.
• Providing ample scope for professional, personal and intellectual growth.
• Offering flexible working hours that allow employees to deal with family obligations, socialize with friends or indulge in creative hobbies.
Ultimately, if an organization wants to extract quality work from its staff, it needs to view each employee as an asset, and design a combination of Cash and Non-Cash Incentives to improve employee motivation.
By
Sandhya Joseph
Monday, August 16, 2010
Incredible English
(Note: This article is written in Indian English and is written in a style suited to publication in a local newspaper.)
Today one often comes across individuals who lament the degeneration of the English language. They express concern over the inaccuracies in grammar and spelling, and find the younger generation’s apparent nonchalance when it comes to proper English usage infuriating. They wonder how a teenager can spell right or write as rite? How can ‘see you’ become simply c u or ‘life is great’ be spelt as lyfz gr8? Social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and Twitter are usually blamed for this state of affairs. Another culprit held accountable is the text messaging service available on mobile phones.
Evidently, it seems in every generation there have been individuals who were worried about the diminishing quality of this language. In the year 1946 in an essay titled Politics and The English Language, George Orwell pronounced, “Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English Language is in a bad way.”
Inadvertently, while learning the rules of grammar and spelling in school class rooms, a mistaken impression is created that these conventions are rigid and have remained unchanged frozen in time. The simple fact, however, is that sentence structures and word spellings have evolved over time and will continue to do so. For example, somewhere between the years 500 to 1100 (known as the Old English period) ‘Welcome’ was written as Wilcume, ‘Who are you?’ was Hwæt eart þu? and ‘Thank you’ (I thank you) was Ic þancie þe. So considering how spellings, words and phrases have changed in the past, don’t be surprised if in the future words like rite (right), gr8 (great), frm (from), u (you), c (see or sea), 2moro (tomorrow) etc become accepted as standard or ‘correct’ language.
Linguists studying semantics also draw our attention to the fact that meanings associated with words also change as centuries pass by. For example, ages ago the word awful meant wonderful or deserving of awe, today it means something extremely unpleasant or bad. Nice meant a person who was ignorant, now it is used to refer to a well-behaved person. The original meaning of tell was to count.
And Oh! Do you know someone who sniggers at the young urban multilingual breed who with casual ease mix English vocabulary with words from their native tongue all in one sentence? Present day multiplex movies are full of characters who deliver dialogues in a combination of Hindi and English. Before accusing this young breed of corrupting the purity of proper English usage, it would be interesting to note that many words that are today considered to be part of correct English vocabulary were actually borrowed from other languages. These are called loanwords. Loanwords are absorbed from one language into another when there is cultural and/or economic contact between people belonging to two different language communities. For example, words like ballet, bigot, grotesque, niche and others were borrowed from French. Canyon, mosquito, tornado etc came from Spanish. Pizza, studio, casino, cameo etc are Italian in origin. Hindi has lent words like bungalow, jungle, loot, pajamas and many more.
Not to mention, in an attempt to be original and innovative authors and orators regularly coin new words. Many such words pass into common use and add to the length of the existing vocabulary list. Shakespeare himself is said to have coined over 1700 words. These include words like amazement, embrace, manager, gossip, majestic etc.
Again, being a vibrant dynamic language full of vigour and vitality, English is quick to create new words to accommodate lifestyle adjustments and changes in the field of science, technology and culture occurring in the 21st century. For example, the words emoticon (a word formed by combining emotion and icon) and screenager which refers to a teenager who spends a great deal of time at his computer staring at the monitor.
With all these words being regularly added to the existing vocabulary list, it is impossible that the way this language is used in daily life remains untouched. English is a living dynamic language that has changed and evolved tremendously in the past and it will continue to do so in the future.
By
Sandhya Joseph
Today one often comes across individuals who lament the degeneration of the English language. They express concern over the inaccuracies in grammar and spelling, and find the younger generation’s apparent nonchalance when it comes to proper English usage infuriating. They wonder how a teenager can spell right or write as rite? How can ‘see you’ become simply c u or ‘life is great’ be spelt as lyfz gr8? Social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and Twitter are usually blamed for this state of affairs. Another culprit held accountable is the text messaging service available on mobile phones.
Evidently, it seems in every generation there have been individuals who were worried about the diminishing quality of this language. In the year 1946 in an essay titled Politics and The English Language, George Orwell pronounced, “Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English Language is in a bad way.”
Inadvertently, while learning the rules of grammar and spelling in school class rooms, a mistaken impression is created that these conventions are rigid and have remained unchanged frozen in time. The simple fact, however, is that sentence structures and word spellings have evolved over time and will continue to do so. For example, somewhere between the years 500 to 1100 (known as the Old English period) ‘Welcome’ was written as Wilcume, ‘Who are you?’ was Hwæt eart þu? and ‘Thank you’ (I thank you) was Ic þancie þe. So considering how spellings, words and phrases have changed in the past, don’t be surprised if in the future words like rite (right), gr8 (great), frm (from), u (you), c (see or sea), 2moro (tomorrow) etc become accepted as standard or ‘correct’ language.
Linguists studying semantics also draw our attention to the fact that meanings associated with words also change as centuries pass by. For example, ages ago the word awful meant wonderful or deserving of awe, today it means something extremely unpleasant or bad. Nice meant a person who was ignorant, now it is used to refer to a well-behaved person. The original meaning of tell was to count.
And Oh! Do you know someone who sniggers at the young urban multilingual breed who with casual ease mix English vocabulary with words from their native tongue all in one sentence? Present day multiplex movies are full of characters who deliver dialogues in a combination of Hindi and English. Before accusing this young breed of corrupting the purity of proper English usage, it would be interesting to note that many words that are today considered to be part of correct English vocabulary were actually borrowed from other languages. These are called loanwords. Loanwords are absorbed from one language into another when there is cultural and/or economic contact between people belonging to two different language communities. For example, words like ballet, bigot, grotesque, niche and others were borrowed from French. Canyon, mosquito, tornado etc came from Spanish. Pizza, studio, casino, cameo etc are Italian in origin. Hindi has lent words like bungalow, jungle, loot, pajamas and many more.
Not to mention, in an attempt to be original and innovative authors and orators regularly coin new words. Many such words pass into common use and add to the length of the existing vocabulary list. Shakespeare himself is said to have coined over 1700 words. These include words like amazement, embrace, manager, gossip, majestic etc.
Again, being a vibrant dynamic language full of vigour and vitality, English is quick to create new words to accommodate lifestyle adjustments and changes in the field of science, technology and culture occurring in the 21st century. For example, the words emoticon (a word formed by combining emotion and icon) and screenager which refers to a teenager who spends a great deal of time at his computer staring at the monitor.
With all these words being regularly added to the existing vocabulary list, it is impossible that the way this language is used in daily life remains untouched. English is a living dynamic language that has changed and evolved tremendously in the past and it will continue to do so in the future.
By
Sandhya Joseph
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