Actually, its popularity for doing so spans international boundaries. In Italy, for example, "The instant messaging service acquired by Facebook this year for $19 billion is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings -- more than any other source of information, whether amorous text messages or email, late-night phone calls, handwritten notes, or even lipstick-stained collars -- according to the Italian Association of Matrimonial Lawyers" (Lyman, 2014)
In fact, there are several ways in which the social capabilities of WhatsApp can actually extend into areas of academic life, effectively blurring the lines between them. There is a well-known case in India in which college students were caught cheating by using WhatsApp (May, 2014)
Competitiveness is involved in almost every industry nowadays, and this making every industry tougher to survive in. Airlines industry has seen a lot of boom in the past few years (Miller)
Due to this factor, there are many more associated factors which have emerged and which have been an area of focus for many experts. When there are numerous amounts of people involved in the travelling function, and more and more are choosing air travel as an efficient option, it becomes very important to ensure efficiency (Mehmood, Shoaib, Aslam, and Shah)
Talking of the scenario in the United States alone, there is a widespread competition in the regional and domestic airlines business. When American government passed deregulation of airlines sector, more and more private participants entered the domestic airline sector, which made it the most competitive sectors (McGuiggan, 2012)
Airlines function is working in conjunction with the airports and their affiliated management function that have developed into a large function in the past few years. Airport management services are looking forward in direction of securing such activities, which are crucial in ascertaining the security and safety (Schumitz, 2012)
First, it considerably slows down the time that it takes from check-in at the gate to boarding, as one must pass through a number of security checks. Two, it adds burdens to carriers and to fliers who now must weigh whether or not to check bags or take carry-on luggage, and the task force charged with carrying out all these security measures must be paid somehow -- and that means raiding the coffers of things like Social Security, which is virtually all gone for the next generation because of all the new departments that have been created by the federal government in the wake of 9/11 (Durden, 2015)
Why should the TSA act separately if it only controls a small percentage of the actual security of the airport? The question is a good one and cuts to the heart of the government bureaucracies created in the wake of 9/11 that do nothing but drain the public of its money and inefficiently "screen" passengers. I would validate a plan of organizing the screening force in the following manner: Airports are still not able to really "opt out" of TSA management, even with the Screening Partnership Program (SPP) because "the entire process is [still] micromanaged by TSA" with the TSA choosing for the airport which company will do the screening and then still regulating that service rather than allowing the airport to integrate it into its own security strategy and apparatus (Ybarra, 2013, p
Body: TSA Hiring Practices Background Though today's Americans normally think of the Transportation Security Authority (TSA) in connection with airline security screening, the United States actually began security screening throughout the country's airports in 1973 in response to multiple hijackings of domestic flights from 1961 to 1972. The Air Transportation Security Act of 1974 required security screening of all passengers and their carryon luggage, resulting in a nearly complete elimination of domestic hijacking by the 1990s (Blackburn, Marsha - U
Departments of Education, Energy, Housing, Labor, State and Urban Development, combined; and many of those employees are members of the American Federation of Government Employees, America's biggest federal and D.C. employee union (Editors, Bioterrorism Week, 2010, p
In rapid response to the 9/11 attacks, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act was enacted by Congress and signed by the President in November 2001, establishing the Transportation Security Administration in the process. The subsequent Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the overarching Office of Homeland Security and brought the TSA under its authority (George & Whatford, 2007, p
38). That daunting task is reflected in the sheer size of the TSA: as of early 2005, the number of TSA employees had grown to 49,200 (Jones, 2006, p
Consequently, in the case of airport screeners, for example, "Go-Team 31" devised an entire system to define, authenticate, train, assess and certify the pertinent skills for airport screeners. NSSB assisted the process by analyzing appropriate job skills, setting skill standards, entertaining and evaluating proposals for implementation of a selection system, ascertaining valuations, ensuring authentication of the screener recruitment program, and furnishing continuing expert advice (Kolstetter, 2003, p
Meanwhile, TSA lacked appropriate checks to reject records with incomplete/missing/erroneous information. As a result, workers who would have been rejected if properly vetted were not only hired but were also given free access to airports' most sensitive areas (Office of the Inspector General, U
Meanwhile, TSA lacked appropriate checks to reject records with incomplete/missing/erroneous information. As a result, workers who would have been rejected if properly vetted were not only hired but were also given free access to airports' most sensitive areas (Office of the Inspector General, U
Meanwhile, TSA lacked appropriate checks to reject records with incomplete/missing/erroneous information. As a result, workers who would have been rejected if properly vetted were not only hired but were also given free access to airports' most sensitive areas (Office of the Inspector General, U
Law enforcement ranges from air marshals on commercial flights to additional and better trained officers at every port of entry. Transportation security funding involves direct costs of increased public security to governments and the private sector (Prentice, 2008, p
The debate about security expense has hampered the TSA from birth. Congress was hesitant about funding some TSA initiatives, swiftly limited the possible number of TSA personnel and refused to increase the TSA budget, leading to severe criticism from the 9/11 Commission in its 2005 Public Discourse Project (Roberts, 2006, p
Consequently, TSA uses part-time employees to accommodate those peaks and lulls. By substituting part-timers for some full-timers, creating a somewhat blended workforce, TSA staffing patterns could be aligned with workloads, as part-timers are directed to either the morning or the afternoon "banks" (Thompson & Mastracci, 2008, p
340). Nevertheless, the United States government was the only world power that created a new national organization (here, the TSA) to monitor security in every transportation sector and to analyze threats to transportation infrastructure in the wake of 9/11 (Yoo, 2009, p