...Contents 1. Discuss the Organizational structure as illustrated in the movie by referring to the Antz Colony structure and the Insectopia structure. 2 The Antz Colony 2 What type of structure does the Antz colony have and what are the positive/negative effects of such a structure? 3 Insectopia 4 What type of structure does Insectopia have and what are the positive/negative effects of such a structure? 4 2. Discuss the job designs of the workers in the Antz movie and indicate the implications of the job designs on the motivation of the workers. 5 Job design elements defined 5 Job design elements in the Antz colony 5 How can job satisfaction among the ants be improved? 6 Job redesign 6 Alternative work arrangements 7 How can the employee’s/ ants be more involved? 7 Rewards used as motivators 8 3. Describe the Culture that was prevalent in the Colony. 9 What does the culture do in the colony? 9 What liabilities does this culture have? 10 4. Describe and discuss the changes that took place in the movie. 11 What were the changes in the Antz colony and how could they have been handled better? 11 Bibliography 14 1. Discuss the Organizational structure as illustrated in the movie by referring to the Antz Colony structure and the Insectopia structure. An organisational structure is “the way in which job tasks are formally divided, grouped and coordinated” (Robbins & Judge, 2011). An organisation has different elements that contribute to its structure...
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...as illustrated in the movie by referring to the Ants Colony structure and the Insectopia structure. This description should include all the major elements regarding organisational structure and the application of the theory by means of examples as found in the movie. An organisational structure is “the way in which a job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated.” (A.Judge, what is an organizational structure, 2013) The film Antz illustrates to us how this concept is used by dividing the ant colony into their specific groups. Six elements are addressed when looking at an organisational structure which include; Work specialisation Work specialisation is the division of labour, where an organisation’s tasks are subdivided into distinct jobs, each completed by a separate individual. In the first five minutes of the film we see images of the little lava ants being given their individual working status, worker ants taking their place in the lines of production, and soldier ants training for battle. (A.Judge, what is an organizational structure, 2013) Departmentalization Departmentalization comes into being when jobs in the organisation are grouped together. Jobs can be divided into groups in different ways, functions performed is one of the more popular ways of doing this. In the film there are two major functions to be performed; the function of the worker ants digging tunnels and the function of the soldier ants that fight rivalry pests or insects. Another way...
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...Philippines. This plant is a natural insect repellant. It is toxic to humans when it mixed with rice or maize ( also known as corn ) which is use as rat killer. The researchers choose this kind of plant is because it has a capability to kill parasitic mites that is harmful to animals and human beings. Termites (Cryptotermes spp.) are known as a pest of wood in the community. They are very small, usually gray or white in color and soft bodied pests. A termite mound is a mixture of soil, termite saliva and droppings. Although termite mounds are solid in texture but in their walls have holes for entering air from outside. They mainly eat stored timber, waste timber, formwork timbers, and dead trees. Their enemies are ants, and spiders because they represent a source of food for ants. The group of researchers has a goal to determine if this plant is effective in terminating termites. Statement of the Problem This study generally aims to find out if Madre de Cacao leaves can be used as termite’s killer. More specifically, this study aims to determine the following • how long it will take for the extract to take effect; and • identify the Amount of extract to be effective in killing the termites. Hypothesis: Madre de cacao leaf extract has no significant effect in killing termites. Significance of the Study: Termites are often called the “silent destroyer” because they may be secretly hiding and thriving in your home...
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...in panicles 6–13 cm long containing a few to numerous flowers; flowering is from February to May in the Philippines, Borneo and the Malay peninsula. They are slightly fragrant and have yellow or orange-yellow petals. The fruit is a semi orbicular pod 2–3 cm diameter, surrounded by a flat 4–6 cm diameter membraneous wing (wing-like structure) which aids dispersal by the wind. It contains one or two seeds, and does not split open at maturity; it ripens within 4–6 years, and becomes purple when dry. The central part of the pod can be smooth (f.indica), bristly (f. echinatus (Pers.) Rojo) or intermediate The termites are a group of eusocial insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera (but see also taxonomy below). Along with ants and some bees and wasps which are all placed in the separate order Hymenoptera, termites divide labor among gender lines, produce overlapping generations and take care of young collectively. Termites mostly feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung, and about 10% of the estimated 4,000 species (about 2,600 taxonomically known) are economically significant as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests. Termites are major detritivores, particularly in the subtropical. and tropical...
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...between the leadership styles of the Queen ant, Princess Atta, and even Hopper the grasshopper. Also, the ant colony it self portrays the differences in social groups and who is looked at as a norm based on the ants perception and those who are deviant from the colony. And lastly, another sociological perspective that can be seen is the symbolic interationist perspective and the way one acts of deviance or norm and if that is based and if that behavior is biological or learned. In what follows the colony of ants will be descried and analyzed through the sociological aspects of, leadership portrayed by Princess Atta, the groups that are presented by the ants and the grasshoppers, and also the theories of behavior that can possibly explain Flik’s non compliant ways of the other ants. Leadership can be categorized in three different ways. These ways are Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire type leadership. Those who lead in an authoritarian manner are those who give orders and have things done their way and their way only. Democratic leaders strive to gain a consensus from others and are open to others ideas before making there final decisions. A leader who demonstrates laissez-faire type leadership is one who is highly permissive and provides little or no direction and gives others as much freedom as possible. In A Bugs Life, Princess Atta attempts to be authoritarian leaders in the beginning of the movie as the ants prepare the harvest for the grasshoppers...
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...Likening the red ants and the black ants to "the republicans (colonists) and the imperalists (the British)," Walden compares the battling insects to humans: For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight! Two killed on the patriots' side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why here every ant was a Buttrick--"Fire! for God's sake fire!"--and thousands shared the fate of Davis and Hosmer (two colonists killed)....I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the Battle of Bunker Hill, at least. Clearly, Thoreau satires the importance that men have put upon going to war on "principle." Facetiously, he earlier compares the red ant who runs into battle to the the Spartan whose mother told their sons to return victorious or dead: "It was evident that their battle cry was "Conquer or die." Studying the red and black ants fighting for no other reason that they hate each other, or one has taxed the other, brings Walden's passage to the point/thesis of the futility of war as well as the terrible waste of life that it is. FUTILITY: I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struglle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before...
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...theorist Karl Marx. Marx’s theory is famous for focusing on how society functions. In particular he concerns himself with how capitalism, the working class, and the revolutions create problems in our society. My paper will analyze how Marxian theory and concepts fit into major climactic scenes of the film. The film revolves around the protagonist Filk, a worker ant. The colony is being oppressed by a group of grasshoppers and their leader Hopper. The grasshoppers claim they will provide protection as long as the ants provide the food supply. When the ants cannot supply the food for the grasshoppers, Hopper demands the ants to produce twice as much food as they did before. As a result, the ants will not have enough food to store up for themselves. Filk then travels to recruit warrior bugs to help the ants fight off the grasshoppers. According to Marx, this would free the colony from the constant oppression of the grasshoppers. The major themes of the movie follow Marxian theory. The first relates to Hopper and how the grasshoppers abuse their power and exploit the ant colony. The grasshoppers expect food knowing that the ants cannot produce enough food for themselves and the grasshoppers to consume. In another scene, the lead grasshopper, Hopper, becomes livid when one of his soldiers suggests...
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...Sociological Experience The sociological movie I chose to watch was, “A Bug’s Life”. I found several sociological concepts while watching the film. The movie is focused on a colony of ants that are being oppressed by a gang of grasshoppers who come every season demanding food from the ants. The grasshoppers use their size to dominate over the ants. One day in the spring, when the offering’s preparation has just been finished, an ant named Flik causes the whole offering of seeds to fall over into a river. The grasshoppers come and harass the ants and decide to give them one more chance to gather seeds. They expect the ants to do all of the work so the grasshoppers can just sit and play. The ants represent the working poor no matter how much work they do they cannot get ahead, while the grasshoppers hardly work and stay on top. Flik tries to recruit warrior bugs to fight off the grass hopers. Flik’s so called warriors turn out to be a group of circus bugs. When the colony discovers this they desperately try to pull together enough food for a new offering to the grasshoppers. After failing to gather enough food they try to scare them away with a fake bird. It nearly works, but Hopper the leader of the grasshoppers realizes that it was an imposter. As he is about to kill Flik the ants realize that they outnumber the grasshoppers 100-to-1 so they fight them off. This part of the movie demonstrates the effects of size in a group. They no longer have to live in fear of the...
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...Bullet Ants (Paraponera Clavata) are ants know for their very painful sting however they are much more to this ant then that. They are found primarily in Atlantic Coastland lowland rainforests (Sara Prado 2014) and there presence in these rainforests is a good indicator of the health of that ecosystem (MeGee and Eaton 2013). Secondary forest growth, or the growth of a forest after it has been deforested has been a large topic of study for scientists and Bullet Ants can help scientist see the effects of deforestation (MeGee and Eaton 2013). Not only can scientist study the abundance and diversity of ants to determine the overall health of an ecosystem (MeGee and Eaton 2013), they can also study the foraging habits and success of bullet ants...
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... Well I have and it was a good movie. A Bug's Life is a very interesting movie but than again you can learn a lot of things from it. Well last week we learned Socialism and Free Enterprise. In fact, A Bug’s Life contain both free enterprise and socialism when the flee had his own circus that was free enterprise. Also when Hopper and his gang took over and when the Bug Council talked yes that was socialism. To begin with the flee had his own circus. He owned it actual everything in the circus was his. From the bad magicians to the steel popcorn he was the boss of it. This made the circus free enterprise he didn’t give up or seal it to anyone. He owned all of it not the government or anyone just him. Next, the bugs may have owned their ant hill like flee owned his circus but their hill was socialism. When Hopper and his gang came into the ant’s hill and took over they no longer owned it. Unlike being a boss like flee the queen was to scared to keep her colony in her own hands. So this made hopper more powerful than ever so he took over. In addition, the bug council was also socialism. They were almost like the government. They made the decisions to what went on in the colony before Hopper and his gang came along. They talked as a group and made decisions as a whole group instead of one person. In summary, this movie made the lesson we learned a whole lot easier to understand. From free enterprise to socialism the movie had key points. To the circus, Hopper and his gang and...
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...The Battle of Ants By Henry David Thoreau You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out....
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...writer of a research paper, including books, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, interviews, and electronic media. All the sources used are listed alphabetically. NOTE: Book titles must be either underlined: Ants or italicized: Ants. NOTE: Pay attention to spacing, capitalization and punctuation. NOTE: When more than one publication location is cited on the title page, the first city should be the one noted on your bibliopgraphy. Place of publication usually includes the Name of the City, and the abbreviation of the State: Greenwood, CT. NOTE: The information for your bibliography should come from the Title Page of each book, NOT THE COVER, the SPINE or other sources (such as WebCat.) BOOKS ONE AUTHOR Overbeck, Cynthia. Ants. Minneapolis: Lerner Publication Company, 1982. Author's last name, Author's first name. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date. TWO OR THREE AUTHORS Sewell, Barbara and Patrick Lynch. A First Look at Ants. New York: Walker & Company, 1992. First Author's last name, First Author's first name and Full Names of 2nd and 3rd Authors. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date. MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS Anderson, Norman D., et al. Ants : using biological indicators to investigate environmental conditions. Raleigh, N.C.: Sci-Link/ Globe-Net Projects, North Carolina State University, 1999. Last Name of First Author, First Name of First...
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...ENGL 1301 Zombie Apocalypse: It takes a thief Are you prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse? Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous things have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not very far-fetched. First of all, what does the word zombie mean? There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin. A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will. One possible origin is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person." Another is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost.” With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. All it takes is a host. “A reservoir host, or simply a reservoir, refers to a living (human, animal, insect, or plant) or non-living (soil, water) entity where a disease-causing organism can normally live and multiply. A host in which a parasite resides to sexual maturity is called a primary host, and a host in which a parasite spends only part of its life cycle or does not reach sexual maturity is called an intermediate...
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...The setting for the story is an ant colony in New York City, The main character, Z is a worker ant for strives to be seen as an individual, living in a society where individualism doesn’t matter. His friends include fellow worker Azteca and a soldier ant, Weaver. After failing to support a wrecking ball, Z mourns at a bar. This is where he meets Princess Bala who has snuck out of the palace to escape from her boring royal life. They dance, deterring from the traditional dance, which sparks a fight. This causes Princess Bala to run back to the palace leaving a love struck Z behind. In order to see Bala again, Z exchanges places with Weaver and joins the army. He doesn't realise that the army's leader and Bala's fiancé, General Mandible, is secretly sending all the soldiers loyal to the Queen to die so he can begin to build a colony filled with powerful ants. When told he is marching into battle, Z is scared as he is unexperienced and only became a soldier to meet Bala. All of the soldiers except for Z are killed, but Z falls into a pit, safe from the termites. Z returns home and is hailed as a war hero, even though he did not do anything and was traumatized by the fighting. He was also congratulated personally General Mandible, who was secretly annoyed that not all the ants were killed. Z is then introduced to the queen where he meets Princess Bala again. Bala then remarks that she remembered him as a worker with Z struggling to make valid excuses. He then panics and pretends...
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...group members’ needs and desires. Initiating structure involves the leader’s ability to identify and define what needs to be done and the objectives for the group. (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2009, p. 291) A Bug’s Life – The Movie Examples of various types of leadership styles can be found in the movie “A Bug’s Life”, based on Aesop’s fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper”. In this story, an ant colony gathers food each season for themselves and a vicious gang of grasshoppers. The leader of the grasshoppers is a cruel and selfish tyrant known as Hopper. (Lasseter, 1998) When the ants’ food offering is accidentially destroyed by the colony’s misfit, Flik, Hopper doubles the food offering requirement and threatens to kill the ants if they don’t comply by the time the grasshoppers return to Ant Island. The ants know that with the rainy season approaching, the requested task is an impossible one. Hopper – Leader of the Grasshoppers The Authoritarian leadership style is reflected in Hopper’s behavior. He accepts no input from group members, he makes all the decisions and he dictates all the work methods and processes. (Cherry) He considers the ants as a means of having food in order to survive, and...
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