...BUS 309 Assignment #2 Old Smoke Ronic West Instructor BUS309 February 26, 2012 Abstract This is our second assignment for Bus 309 we are to write on case study 8.4. Regarding Old Smoke and follow the metric for this assignment described in the course syllabus. If I was Charles Renfold I would closely weigh the options and look at what other companies in my field are doing with smoking policies. Companies are passing more and more no smoking laws for employees even going as far as employees cannot smoke on the grounds of work. With these considerations I would come up with a designate smoker’s area for my smoking employees. Charles will need to consider her opinion because she is the only employee that can complete an extremely important report for the company. Charles could show his smoking employees how to complete the report for his managers. I find it disturbing personally that a company still allow employees to still smoke inside the building. Then to allow employees to air out the room by opening windows this obvious cannot be healthy for anyone involved. I feel breaks should be built into the work day to insure productivity is still kept at a maximum. Maybe two breaks and lunch for all employees. I think of the companies that are banding smoking from the entire campus how is this being handled. I would definitely build in breaks into the work day and make a designation smokers...
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..."Old Smoke" Case 8.4 Michael A. Kidd Professor Jane Bolduc Osburn Business Ethics – BUS 309 February 20, 2012 Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold. When we look at this scenario, I can only imagine how many times this same situation happens in workplaces all over the world. For Charles Renfold, handling the situation will require tact, understanding, and patients. Now, if I were in Charles’s position, I would begin by sympathetically acknowledging Darlene’s concerns and grievances, giving complete understanding and validation to her ill and nauseating feeling from the bad odor of old cigarette smoke. Letting her also know that I understand completely when working in an uncomfortable environment, especially those with offensive sights, sounds, and smells, it can be quite a hindrance to complete tasks and assignments in a timely manner and with proficiency. As her supervisor, I would look into trying to provide an alternative work space then that of the environment with the bad smell, and even though Frank and Alice have been trying to air out the room, I would also explore the possibilities of providing better ventilation in the small confined areas. Reminding Darlene that yes the company is aware of the states law about providing a ‘smoke-free’ work area for those non-smokers who desire it, I would ask Darlene to try and understand the difficulty...
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...Case 8.4 “OLD SMOKE” DONALD HITCHCOCK SHAFIQUR MALLICK BUS 309 BUSINESS ETHICS JANUARY 28, 2012 CASE 8.4 OLD SMOKE 1. Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold. If I were Charles Renfold and was confronted about the smell of “old smoke’’ I would listen to the complaint from Darlene and explain to her that the company has not banned smoking at the work place. I would also remind Darlene that she has a job to accomplish in the file room and that this is what the company pays her to do and any refusal of such an order could be deemed as insubordination and could result in disciplinary actions. Next I would go talk to Frank and Alice about smoking in the office because he has had a complaint about the odor. He should remind them that while the company and the law does not prohibit smoking in doors, they still have to respect each individual right that work for the company. Charles should contact the main office and try to put a policy in effect that gives the smokers of the company a designated area to participate in this activity. Not allowing employees to smoke or use tobacco products in the office should not drop moral or productivity because using tobacco should only be allowed on designated brakes or at lunch and should also only be done in a designated area that is suitable for the environment. 2. Describe the policy on smoking that you would recommend to Redwood Associates. The policy that I would incorporate at Redwood Associates...
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...Assignment Two 1 Assignment Two Victoria Blackmon Strayer University Professor Dominique Sweeting BUS 309 November 21, 2011 Assignment One – 2 1) Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold? I would ask Darlene to come back into my office. I would politely remind her that she had a job to do and regardless of our personal feelings about smoking we had work that had to be completed. I would also remind Darlene that her feelings would be considered and let her know I intend to find a solution that will satisfy everyone which included scheduling a meeting with the department to address the issue. After that conversation, I would ask for Darlene’s patience while I work with everyone through the issue. I would mention some of the things I plan to do in the short term while we reach a permanent solution. I would also mention to Darlene that maybe the approach she took toward me as her supervisor may not have been the best choice. I would not necessarily reprimand her for being insubordinate to me at that moment because I would not want Darlene to feel like I was threatening her but it would be noted in my file on her to be discussed at review time when the tension may not be as high as it is now. I would offer suggestions to Darlene on obtaining the files needed to complete the report like getting...
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...Joseph Lockaby Professor Bill Lolius Assignment #2 Case 8.4 Old Smoke BUS 309 November 27, 2011 Old Smoke This is case regarding smokers and non-smokers in the workplace. Smokers are entitled to smoking rights while non-smokers are entitled to their rights. Can a company infringe on the rights of smokers verses non-smokers and how will this affect the productivity of the workers? This will be discussed in this the questions that are asked in this case and what how smoking and non-smoking employees can affect the outcome of a company's business. How I would deal with this situation is; I would ask the Alice and Frank if they could find the reports that are needed to do the research. Then I would ask Darlene if they gave her the reports and she did not have to be in the file room, would she be able to do the research? I would then tell the employees that we are going to have to change the smoking policy in the office. The smoking policy that I would implement for this small office is no smoking in the office common areas. This includes the file room. The reason being is that the company is to provide a smoke free work area to the employees who do not smoke. This being a small office it is hard to get the smell of the smoke out. I am not saying that the office has to become smoke- free, however, the office filers may have to step outside when time permits for them to take a smoke break. Most offices have a place where they send the smokers to enjoy...
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...Old Smoke Bus 309 Lynne Anderson Professor Richard Carroll Strayer University February 21, 2012 1. Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold. What is Darlene’s personality? Is she a valuable employee with a sunny disposition and the ability to get along with everyone, who happens to have an allergy to cigarette smoke or has other general respiratory problems? Or is she an employee who has a different problem every day, no matter what the circumstances? From the article, it would appear that she DECIDED she would not work in an area where she could smell cigarette smoke. She did not state, ‘I can’t breathe in the file room’ or tell her boss about her medical issues. She simply stated, ‘I am not going to work in there today.’ I would not try to placate her further. She has the option of asking the two smokers to use special ashtrays that absorb smoke, or only smoking in one part of the files room, or only smoking during certain times of the day. She could try to work this out with them, instead of making this her boss’s problem and being so confrontational with him. Chances are she does things that other people don’t like. I would remind Darlene that she is talking about what she wants, not what she is entitled to, under the law. Alice and Frank have already taken steps to minimize the impact of their smoking by refraining from smoking when she is in the files room, and by airing it out before she comes into the room...
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...Old Smoke in the Workplace By: Jennefer Paddock BUS 309: Professor Handel Smith February 26, 2012 Old Smoke in the Workplace “Old Smoke” is a case where there is a file room, where Alice and Frank smoke, that smells of cigarette smoke. In this case, Charles Renford, office supervisor for Redwood Associates, assigned a task to one of his employees, Darlene Lambert, to help him with a report that was due right away. When the office supervisor asked his employee to go into the file room to start assembling the data needed for the report, Darlene refused the task claiming that the file room smelled like smoke and it was too bad for her to be in there. Darlene has worked in the file room before, and she has never went to her supervisor and complained about the smoke smell. This case shows that Alice and Frank are considerate as they were always considerate of Darlene, as well as nonsmokers, by opening the windows to air the room out ahead of time if they knew that Darlene was going to be working in there. Companies have implemented a non-smoking policy in places of employment, and according to this case smokers have rights, and the office supervisor reminds Darlene that their state law does not ban smoking in the workplace. Due to Darlene not going into the filing room, the office supervisor is concerned with the report that is currently due. With this case, Charles Renford could have handled the situation better than what he did, and Charles Renford should implement a policy...
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...1. I see．我明白了2. I quit! 我不干了!3. Let go! 放手!4. Me too．我也是。5. My god! 天哪!6. No way! 不行!7. Come on．來吧(趕快)8. Hold on．等一等。9. I agree。我同意。10. Not bad．還不錯。11. Not yet．還沒。12. See you．再見。13. Shut up! 閉嘴!14. So long．再見。15. Why not? 好呀! (為什麼不呢?)16. Allow me．讓我來。17. Be quiet! 安靜點!18. Cheer up! 振作起來!19. Good job! 做得好!20. Have fun! 玩得開心!21. How much? 多少錢?22. I'm full．我飽了。23. I'm home．我回來了。24. I'm lost．我迷路了。25. My treat．我請客。26. So do I．我也一樣。27. This way。這邊請。28. After you．您先。29. Bless you! 祝福你!30. Follow me．跟我來。31. Forget it! 休想! (算了!)32. Good luck! 祝好運!33. I decline! 我拒絕!34. I promise．我保證。35. Of course! 當然了!36. Slow down! 慢點!37. Take care! 保重!38. They hurt． (傷口)疼。39. Try again．再試試。40. Watch out! 當心。41. What's up? 有什麼事嗎?42. Be careful! 注意!43. Bottoms up! 乾杯(見底)!44. Don't move! 不許動!45. Guess what? 猜猜看?46. I doubt it 我懷疑。47. I think so．我也這麼想。48. I'm single．我是單身貴族。49. Keep it up! 堅持下去!50. Let me see．讓我想想。51. Never mind．不要緊。52. No problem! 沒問題!53. That's all! 就這樣!54. Time is up．時間快到了。55. What's new? 有什麼新鮮事嗎?56. Count me on 算上我。57. Don't worry．別擔心。58. Feel better? 好點了嗎?59. I love you! 我愛你!60. I'm his fan。我是他的影迷。61. Is it yours? 這是你的嗎?62. That's neat．這很好。63. Are you sure? 你肯定嗎?64. Do l have to 非做不可嗎?65. He is my age．他和我同歲。66. Here you are．給你。67. No one knows . 沒有人知道。68. Take it easy．別緊張。69. What a pity! 太遺憾了!70. Any thing else? 還要別的嗎?71. To be careful! 一定要小心!72. Do me a favor? 幫個忙，好嗎?73. Help yourself．別客氣。74. I'm on a diet．我在節食。75. Keep in Touch．保持聯絡。76. Time is money．時間就是金錢。77. Who's calling? 是哪一位...
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...THE POWER OF HABIT Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd i 10/17/11 12:01 PM Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd ii 10/17/11 12:01 PM HABIT W h y We D o W h a t We D o and How to Change It THE POWER OF CHARLES DUHIGG Random House e N e w Yo r k Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd iii 10/17/11 12:01 PM This is a work of nonfiction. Nonetheless, some names and personal characteristics of individuals or events have been changed in order to disguise identities. Any resulting resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional. Copyright © 2012 by Charles Duhigg All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-6928-6 eBook ISBN 978-0-679-60385-6 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Illustrations by Anton Ioukhnovets www.atrandom.com 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 First Edition Book design by Liz Cosgrove Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd iv 10/17/11 12:01 PM To Oliver, John Harry, John and Doris, and, everlastingly, to Liz Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd v 10/17/11 12:01 PM Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd vi 10/17/11 12:01 PM CONTENTS PROLOGUE The Habit Cure GGG xi PA R T O N E The Habits of Individuals 1. THE HABIT LOOP How Habits Work 3 31 60 2. THE...
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...Alex Flinn A Kiss in Time For Joyce Sweeney. Thanks for everything! Contents Part I Talia ix Chapter 1 If I hear one more syllable about spindles, I shall… 1 Chapter 2 Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. I do not suppose it… 7 Chapter 3 Free of the encumbrance that is Lady Brooke, I fairly… 17 Part II Jack 25 Chapter 1 What they don’t tell you about Europe is how completely… 27 Chapter 2 “Good thing we got food first,” Travis says on the… 33 Chapter 3 When I was a kid, back when my family was… 39 Chapter 4 It’s a castle. Not a modern-looking one like Buckingham Palace,… 45 Chapter 5 I stare at her. I’ve never seen a human being… 49 Chapter 6 She’s awake! It really is like Snow White! Holy crap!… 55 Chapter 7 Things get a little crazy then. There’s Travis at the… 63 Part III Jack and Talia 71 Chapter 1: Talia 73 Chapter 2: Jack 84 Chapter 3: Jack 94 Chapter 4: Talia 101 Chapter 5: Jack 105 Chapter 6: Talia 111 Chapter 7: Jack 131 Chapter 8: Talia 147 Chapter 9: Jack 151 Chapter 10: Talia 156 Chapter 11: Jack 169 Chapter 12: Talia 176 Chapter 13: Jack 183 Chapter 14: Talia 188 Chapter 15: Jack 194 Chapter 16: Talia 200 Chapter 17: Jack 208 Chapter 18: Talia 213 Chapter 19: Jack 220 Chapter 20: Talia 225 Chapter 21: Jack 235 Chapter 22: Talia 241 Chapter 23: Jack 251 Chapter 24: Talia 258 Chapter 25: Jack 266 Chapter 26: Talia 271 Chapter 27: Jack 273 Chapter 28: Talia 278 Chapter 29: Jack ...
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...Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin Dedication To the two special women in my life—my mother and my wife Mao’s Last Dancer A Wedding Qingdao, 1946 On the day of her marriage, a young girl sits alone in her village home. It is autumn, a beautiful October morning. The country air is cool but fresh. The young girl hears happy music approaching her house. She is only eighteen, and she is nervous, frightened. She knows that many marriage introducers simply take money and tell lies. Some women from her village marry men who don't have all their functional body parts. Those women have to spend the rest of their lives looking after their husbands. Wife beating is common. Divorce is out of the question. Divorced women are humiliated, despised, suffering worse than an animals fate. She knows some women hang themselves instead and she prays this is not going to be her fate. She prays to a kind and merciful god that her future husband will have two legs, two arms, two eyes and two ears. She prays that his body parts are normal and functional. She worries that he will not be kind-hearted and will not like her. But most of all she &+x worries about her unbound feet. Bound feet are still in fashion. Little girls as young as five or six have to tuck four toes under the big toe and squeeze them hard to stop the growth. It is extremely painful, and the girls have to change the cloth bandages and wash their feet daily to avoid infection. The tighter the feet are bound the smaller the feet will...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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...OFFICIAL CATALOG This Catalog contains information, policies, procedures, regulations and requirements that were correct at the time of publication and are subject to the terms and conditions of the Enrollment Agreement entered into between the Student and ECPI University. In keeping with the educational mission of the University, the information, policies, procedures, regulations and requirements contained herein are continually being reviewed, changed and updated. Consequently, this document cannot be considered binding. Students are responsible for keeping informed of official policies and meeting all relevant requirements. When required changes to the Catalog occur, they will be communicated through catalog inserts and other means until a revised edition of the Catalog is published. The policies in this Catalog have been approved under the authority of the ECPI University Board of Trustees and, therefore, constitute official University policy. Students should become familiar with the policies in this Catalog. These policies outline both student rights and student responsibilities. The University reserves the right and authority at any time to alter any or all of the statements contained herein, to modify the requirements for admission and graduation, to change or discontinue programs of study, to amend any regulation or policy affecting the student body, to increase tuition and fees, to deny admission, to revoke an offer of admission and to dismiss from the...
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...cover next page > title author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject : : : : : : : : : : : cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i 1100 Words You Need to Know Fourth Edition Murray Bromberg Principal Emeritus Andrew Jackson High School, Queens, New York Melvin Gordon Reading Specialist New York City Schools . . . Invest fifteen minutes a day for forty-six weeks in order to master 920 new words and almost 200 useful idioms < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii © Copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Prior edition © Copyright 1993, 1987, 1971 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner. All inquiries should be addressed to: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. 250 Wireless Boulevard Hauppauge, NY 11788 http://www.barronseduc.com Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 00-030344 International Standard Book Number 0-7641-1365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bromberg, Murray. 1100 words you need to know / Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7641-1365-8 1. Vocabulary. I. Title: Eleven hundred words you need...
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