...determine on how they perceive a good or bad boss. I. Introduction- Everyone has a boss; however, not every boss is qualified to be a boss. II. First main point - How a good boss conducts themselves in a work environment. a. Supporting details - A good boss is one that mentors their employees’ and empowers them. i. Subdetails – Good bosses want to help you learn and grow so you can be the best that you can be. ii. Subdetails – Good bosses listen and assess their employees needs and tries to meet them b. Supporting details – A good boss is a person with good communication skills, morale, and provides resources for their employees and co-workers.. i. Subdetails- A good employer has excellent communication skill and is someone who keeps in touch with their employees, while demonstrating good morale. ii. Subdetails - A good boss is going to want to provide you with the resources you need to get your job done, even if that means thinking outside the box. III. Second main point- How a bad boss conducts themselves in a work environment. a. Supporting details- A bad boss is one that is self serving or belittles you, causing a tense work environment. i. Subdetails – An employer that has an over abundance of ego, pride, and arrogance are usually not positive leadership and tends to put himself over service. ii. Subdetails- A bad boss uses belittling words and offers no...
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...Good Boss vs. Bad Boss There are many traits that a boss needs; like communication, respect and mentoring. These traits and others will decide whether you are a good boss or bad. It will depends on how one looks at it, are you an employee or a boss. Bosses will come and go, however the good ones will always stand out from the bad ones. At the same time, ironically, it’s easy to spot both extremes, good and bad. Everyone has a difference of opinion on what makes a good boss. I have worked for several bosses and the good ones outweigh the bad. When treated with respect and understanding an employee feels good about the job they are doing, and the boss. Communication and respect are important keys to any relationship, and the relationship between a boss and an employee is no exception. Because employees are the backbone of any business, a bad employee can negatively impact a business. Good bosses teach, train, and listen to their employees when they make suggestions, as they come from personal experience with customers or with a work situation that they have found that needs attention. Communication is key in a manager and employee relationship, understanding each other is key, questions need to be asked if needed to make sure everyone is on the same page. An employee’s perspective differs from the perspective of a boss, therefore meaningful discussion between both parties can bring positive changes and this will promote on a dialog of both...
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...Book Review | Book Review | Good Boss, bad boss: How to be the best... and learn from the worst | Ottawa University Organizational Consultation Skills | Erin Smith | 11/18/2012 | | Good Boss Bad Boss wrote by Robert Sutton is the research and stories put together about good and bad bosses, and behaviors in the workplace that led to their successes and failures. This book gives insight and self awareness as part of an ongoing process toward becoming a great boss or leader. Suttons work was directed by three basic questions: His work is directed by three basic questions: If you want to be a Good Boss, what do you need to accomplish day after day, If you have a Bad Boss, what can you do about it, and In short, what are the hallmarks of a Good Boss, and worst flaws of a Bad Boss? (Sutton, 2010) In the beginning of the book Sutton takes a look at having the right mindset. Being a good boss creates a healthy environment. What is more, a good boss has "more impact on engagement and performance than whether their companies are rated as great or lousy places to work" (Sutton, 2010). Sutton points out that “the leaders of an organization still matters more than the other bosses.” (Sutton, 2010) Sutton points out many points, but one strong point that is a focus is that bosses matter. Sutton stated, “Bosses matter, especially to their immediate followers and in small teams and organization.” He points out that bosses need to act as if they are in control even when...
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...Tuesdays. Mr. Woodifield and the boss talk about the new decorations of the boss’s office, there is something though that Mr. Woodifield struggles to remember that he wanted to tell the boss. He remembers that is was his daughters had ran across the boss’s son grave while looking at Reggie’s, his son whom he had lost in World War One, grave. He goes on to tell the boss of how well the place is kept, and how his son and Reggie were quite close to one another. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the boss tells his office messenger that “I’ll see nobody for half an hour.” He begins to attempt to grieve over the loss of his son the way he used to be able to. He finds himself unable to weep and he finds himself easily distracted by a simple fly. The fly falls into the ink pot and the boss watches him struggle over and over until he is finally unable to overcome and dies. The moral of this story seems to be that time can heal all grief. Mr. Woodifield is a gentleman whom was a former employee of the boss. He has retired after the stroke he had and comes to visit the boss on Tuesdays, when his wife and girls let him out of the house. Like the boss, he also lost his son in the war. Mr. Woodifield cannot seem to remember anything, until after having some whisky. “But it warmed him; it crept into his chilled old brain- he remembered.” (736) He is then able to remember about his sons grave and how that his Reggie and the boss’s son are close to one another in the cemetery. He does...
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...7 Characteristics of a Great Boss The weekend is over and here we are, hello Monday and your boss has already started the morning off on a bad note. You feel like telling your boss “I quit” because her appreciation for anything or anyone does not exist. When was the last time you heard the boss say “great job, thank you for reporting in today, have a great evening; see you tomorrow”? These few simple words make a world of a difference. To hear the words “thank you” can modify your outlook of quitting or wanting to stay. Making that judgment varies on the person you work for. A noble boss is one who provides training and leadership to their personnel; however, some bosses are less efficient in their supervisory methods and procedures. To define boss - one who guides or oversees employees and exercises authority and control. Their responsibilities may include insuring the work is completed; policies and protocols are followed, and offer the crucial training to achieve these duties (Wikipedia, 2015). They have the ability to employ new workers and fire those that do not measure up. How responsibilities are conducted can be the distinction between a virtuous boss and an immoral boss. The personality of whether a boss is measured bad or good is contingent on the perception of the employee. A respectable boss directs his employees by assigning work based on an individual’s strengths. They take time to acquire what skills the employees have and in what way they can best be used...
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...question. When you see it if no one asks you to think about it one is likely to think “what a stupid question, that has an obvious answer”, but you would be wrong. A person that works in a company will most likely spend more time there then at home. It shouldn't be to much of a predicament if the person holding the wedding gets is friends with everyone at work, which might happen if you work for a small company, and the work space consists of a small work force. What if you don’t like some one in your work place? or even if one feels that the time they spend with their colleagues is more then enough? It really depends on the person who is about to take the ultimate step in a relationship. One can invite everyone and just have to deal with those who are not to their liking, which will prevent any future resentments. One can invite just the ones they get along with, this with the notion that others will find out about the happening, and might result in future quarrels in the future. A politically correct approach can be taken by not inviting their co-workers to the wedding using the expenses as an excuse. As a person that has never worked in an office environment, and hasn’t even pondered on the idea of getting engaged, it is hard to considered the approach that I would take. Based on school environment birthdays, I believe if I was eccomicly able to do so I would invite everyone in the office, and ignore thoose would did not please me. It all depends on ones personality, and also position...
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...In Barbara Ehrenreich’s narrative, “Serving in Florida”, she discusses several hypocritical managers. These managers are very hypocritical by not doing any meaningful work themselves, but only serve to micromanage employees and give them menial tasks when they make mistakes or appear to be not working. One example of this is her boss Stu at Hearthside: When, on a particularly dead afternoon, Stu finds me glancing at a USA Today a customer has left behind, he assigns me to vacuum the entire floor with the broken vacuum cleaner, which has a handle only two feet long, and the only way to do that without incurring orthopedic damage is to proceed from spot to spot on your knees. (94) Luckily, ineffective and disrespectful bosses like Stu are not common in Florida. If he had made some changes in his management style, the working atmosphere at Hearthside would have been better. No one deserves that kind of treatment from their employer. I have interviewed several people who have...
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...The author writes that "Tom could envision only two scenarios for staying with the company: (1) Do as he was told, change his style to suit Frank's agenda, and execute on a strategy he believed was flawed; or (2) expose the full extent of Frank's dubious projections and strategy to McDonald, his original sponsor, and hope she'd rescue and redeploy him". I offer a third way: learn to work successfully with Frank so that he gains influence and also learns from his boss. Perhaps the first issue to be aware of is that Tom can't change his boss, he can only change himself. This is important not only because Frank is his boss but also because the issues facing Tom right now will crop up again and again - if he doesn't find different and more effective ways to manage his relationship with his boss. There is a risk for us all that we expect our boss to do the changing. This mirrors our expectations of our parents when we are growing up. They're the parents... he's the boss... surely it's up to them/him to make things comfortable for me. However, if Tom wants to be succeed in his new job, he needs to forget about what anyone else "should" do and focus on his own actions. Before Tom can put his ideas forward to Frank and be heard, he needs to build a much deeper understanding of Frank and connect with him. Building relationship in this way makes it more likely that Frank will, in time, listen to Tom. It also helps Tom to understand his boss's way of thinking so that, when the...
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...Sandy an average rate for every single point. She doesn’t know if this is a good or a bad rate. He is not fair cause’ he bases his ratings on one single point, namely the wine service and generalizes this for the other points. In my opinion his comments are not constructive and well-intentioned. * * He focuses his defense only on her less developed skills and doesn’t mention her good skills. Also his defense is very flat. With that I mean that he doesn’t give any specific and descriptive feedback. He doesn’t define the performance problem, doesn’t makes his standards clear and he doesn’t work with the employee to set goals for improvement. The boss focuses on the person and not on the behavior, it’s personally hurtful. * 2. How do you think Sandy feels? Will she be motivated to improve? Is it enough to know you are not going to lose your job? * * Sandy went to the appraisal interview with confidence. But I think she lost her confidence after the interview. Due to the average score she doesn’t know where and how to improve. * * By not focusing on employees needs in a highly effective way, the employees will not be motivated. He does nothing to support Sandy, whereby she also loses her motivation. The boss doesn’t encourage her at all by reinforcing good work performance. * 3. List the mistakes the boss makes in his interview. How could he have handled things better? * * He takes on an authoritarian approach. * In the interview...
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...REFLECTION PAPER: “Horrible Bosses” One of the worst scenarios that an employee may dream of is having a difficult boss to work under. Bosses that are too strict, give too much work, insensitive or impatient are some of the characteristics that employees don’t like. Let’s face it, I don’t think anyone would like bosses or superiors like that. The film “Horrible Bosses” shows three friends – Nick Hendricks, Dale Arbus and Kurt Buckman struggle working under their own “horrible” bosses. Nick works under David Harken who reprimands Nick and saying that Nick isn’t fit yet for a promotion so he awards it on himself. On the other hand, Dale works as an assistant for Dr. Julia Harris who continues to sexually harass Dale despite of him being engaged. Julia even threatens to show Stacy (Dale’s fiancé) some intimate pictures of her and Dale if he wouldn’t have sex with her. Lastly, since Kurt’s original boss died, he now works for his boss’ son whose name is Bobby that is a drug addict and doesn’t really care about the company at all. With these circumstances, they’ve decided to kill their respective bosses. Over the course of studying Human Resource Management (HRM), I have realized that Human Resource, in its simplest form, is about improving an employee’s work environment in order for the organization to maximize its employee’s skills and potential. The film “Horrible Bosses” illustrated how an employee’s work environment – in this case, their respective employers - can affect...
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...just gone over in our meeting. I never really thought about her taking any money out since she got up and left the desk when I came in the office. The teacher had never stolen anything in the past. There would be times that our boss would send us to the store and tell us to get money out of the bag and make sure that we brought back the receipt. So when I saw her going in the bag I just thought she was told to get money out of it to purchase something for work. Later in the week I told my boss that I need some supplies for my classroom. She told me that she would go get some petty cash out of the bag and let me go get what I needed so that I made sure I had the right stuff to the project. When she went to the cash she could not find the bag. It was not in the spot that she kept it. My boss was looking all around the office to see where the bag may have been placed. She went back to see if the Assistant Director had moved it. When she found out that she had not messed with it she went back to the office to look again. The teacher that I saw messing with it went up to the office to see if she could help them find it. The teacher is one that found the bag up under some papers. I still never really thought to much of it at the time. I figured that the boss had...
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...Here are my answers to the questions of Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville 1. The Boss who is also the narrator is up against Bartleby unwillingness to do what he is paid for. At first he does all his copying but when he is asked to check his work with the original copy, Bartleby simply refuse. The Boss feels frustrated by Bartleby’s answer but yet keep him longer to see if he’ll change, which he doesn’t and the Boss is force to move his business because Bartleby refuse to leave the place. In the story, Bartleby represents freedom as he chooses not to do anything. We can observe a couple of society statement, the narrator represent “normality” in which normal people seek social status and fortune, but on the other hand, Bartleby is the opposite as he does not seek any social status or interaction at all, he has lost his humanity and chooses to let go of everything. However, I read other Melville stories and I know that Melville often represent himself in his own stories. Here, Melville is represented by Bartleby. The narrator sees himself as normal making every other character in the story different from normal. Nippers has a “disease” for being ambitious and Turkey is annoying because he is “too energetic” but put together they are useful. Both represent different type of peoples we can easily find in our everyday world. They aren’t likable or sympathetic characters but because of their extreme behavior, they only make the scene less dark than it would be without...
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...While a critical thinker, they are usually capable of fulfilling tasks, but unwilling to do so. An alienated follower is typically the result a superior not keeping a promise, or when the employee runs into obstacles. An example of an alienated follower is an accountant who is given the option to relax in the break room and complain to fellow employees and their boss, versus putting in extra effort to help a client for their boss, they would stick to the break room. The second characteristic is a conformist. Unlike the alienated follower, a conformist is very involved in a healthy relationship with the boss. While not as much of a critical thinker, a conformist simply does what he or she is told. They are over dependent on their leaders and do not look at possible consequences that could result from their actions. No matter what task is being requested of them, they follow orders without question. This is usually the result of working with strict and rigid rules that would not allow any individualism, leading the employee to conform to their environment and not rebel or retaliate. Consider a police officer whose boss asked her to take a cop car to pick up his kids from school while on the clock. She would not try to question or retaliate, but simply do as she is told. The police officer in that scenario represents a conformist, because...
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...Cast Cinderella – Sleiziee – Cindy Prince – Desmond –Nathaniel - Boss Cinderella’s best friend – Haily – Brenda Step Mother – Ester – Ruth - Manager Step sister 1 – Jenny – Chelsea Step sister 2 - Abrona – Fiona Plot Cindy is new to a company. They never meet the boss. Ruth asks Cindy to make a cup of coffee for her. Ruth: Cindy, can you please make a cup of coffee for me? Cindy: Ok right away. Cindy bring a cup of coffee into the manager’s room, after putting down the coffee Cindy went back to her table and continue her work. Ruth takes the cup of coffee into Nathaniel’s room. Ruth: Boss, I had made you a cup of coffee. Nathaniel: (after drinking the coffee) Ruth, today coffee was good compare to the previous one. Love this taste. Ruth: Thanks boss will make it for you everyday. Nathaniel: Alright, you can go back to your work now. Ruth: Ok I will go first. Ruth goes back to her room and asks Cindy to come in. Ruth: Cindy, I want you to make a cup of coffee everyday for me. Cindy: Sure, I will. Ruth: You can get back to your work now. As Cindy walks back to her table, Chelsea comes by and gives her a document to photocopy. Chelsea: Cindy please helps me to photocopy this document for 20 copies. Make sure no one will see this document. If not you will be in bad trouble. I will need it by 2 o’clock. Cindy: Ok. As Chelsea walks away, Fiona walks toward Cindy. Fiona: Cindy, can you please look through this file and retype it. Please finish it by 5 o’clock. Cindy: Alright. Seeing...
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...Summary: Sid worked for Dun and Ready Company to monitor the Japanese stock market to determine patterns and identify stocks that could become active. Sid was assigned to Tokyo as a Japanese man, and was told to gather information for his foreign boss Glenna. However, besides the above, Sid was requested to do much more things, even be a resource for the Japanese who wanted to invest in the US market. Somehow, Sid did many things that Glenna should do. Later, Glenna was replaced by Ron, since rumor had it that expenses were too high and revenue too low. Ron is a “by-the-book” person, but company rules had not caught up with the realities of cultural differences, it led 7 representatives be fired, but Sid survived. Sid did things on his own ideas while Ron just paying attention to productivity, and even he tend to sell some certain sensitive information to cartel who want to takeover D&R. However, he may be sold out by someone. So, if Sid was to gather the information sought by the cartel, he would have to act quickly. What we have learnt: Dun and Ready Company is a global business company which is defined as business transactions across national boundaries. Japan is just a branch of the company. As foreign boss, both Glenna and Ron feel hard when facing cultural barriers. So Glenna wants Sid to communicate with customers instead of him. As we learnt, Cultural relativism is the rationalizations businesspeople sometimes offer for straying from their own ethical values...
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