...and understanding the relationship between pay and performance in factory and operators responded to poor payment system by reducing their work efforts. The article aim might also be to project the conception that the machine operator’s behaviour or workers was economically driven through the piece working rate they fall into; the working rate was $ 0.09-$1.66 hourly, a range of $ 1.57 and the collected data project that approximately one half of the hours earning falls between $ 1.15-$ 1.34 interval and the second largest portion was between $ 0.34-0.54. In the article he identified that the workers was split into two categories the ‘’stinkers’’ and the ‘’gravy’’ thus this implying that there is an internal workers hierarchy. These jobs where define as ‘’gravy’’ the easy jobs where earnings could be made with little efforts whereas ‘’stinkers’’ where the difficult jobs where earnings were too low in relation to the work effort. There were also pay cuts for over working thus...
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...This is a real experience from my life. I started my career as Analyst and wanted to move into people management role as I use to see managers managing people in the office and was influenced and really wanted to manage people with a pinch of Human Touch. I never want to become only manager for my people but also interested in their friendship and their personal life as well. So, the hero of my story was one of my team members named Prabhu. I joined the organization and moved to a role of people manager. The process was quite new and people in my team as well only few were experienced. We transitioned the project and it went live. Now, when we started assessing the people in my team we found that Prabhu is lagging behind. We started stinkers from client as well regarding his performance in day to day activity. He was unable to meet our expectations even though he was 3 ½ year experience in very good organizations. We took meetings with him to find out what are the challenges he is facing which is impacting his performance. Initially he told that since its new domain he is taking some time to learn the process, we set a target date of 1 month for him to learn the process thoroughly. We assigned a SME for him who can take extra care like providing training and reviewing his day to day activities. We assessed him post 1 month and the results were same. We thought to provide him easy task maybe he is not able to cope up with the tougher funds at the first place. He has been...
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...The Cinematic Auteur Steven Spielberg Auteur Theory says that a director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision, as if they were the primary "auteur" (the French word for "author"). In spite of the production of the film as part of an industrial process, the auteur's creative voice is distinct enough to shine through all kinds of studio interference and through the collective process.” Steven Spielberg is now recognized as one of Hollywood’s leading auteurs; a filmmaker who expresses his identity over a body of films. Steven Spielberg, for instance, lends his touch to films he's associated with, whether it's as director OR producer, as with The Goonies Importance of auteur theory in film analysis and interpretation. Auteur theory is the process in which to critique films. “The theory gives enormous, almost total responsibility for a film’s success or failure (artistically, not at the box office) to the director” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). According to film critic Andrew Sarris there are three rules to determine if a Director is an Auteurist. (1) Technical competence which refers to how well a movie is made; (2) Distinguishable Personality which refers to movies must have identifiable style and viewpoint; (3) Interior Meaning which refers to that the body of work should express coherent world stance. The features of being an auteur include; 1 having a recognizable style, 2 repeatedly returning to the same subject mater, 3 habitually address...
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...friends with them until Thursday that week. We were all gathered under the loft where we stayed, and we were supposed to write letters to our future selves to be opened the next year on crew. (Which never happened by the way, still kinda salty about that.) “Hey Will! Hey Billy Double-Yuh!” I called, looking for my best friend in the cabin, hoping we’d BS our letters together. “SAM!” I jumped; Katie, the brunette, and Emily, the redhead, were standing right behind me. “Whatch’ya writing your letter about?” “Uh, A lot of stuff,” I replied sarcastically, “Don’t be surprised if it’s a lot better than yours is though. My letter went something like this: “Dear Future Sam, Why? Why do you even continue on you freaking loser. Hope 2015 is a real stinker. Cordially, Sam” Hope you enjoyed the comedic stylings of 14 year old Sammy, because apparently 14 year old Emily and Katie got a sensible chuckle out of it. Enough to make a group chat with just the three of us. For a year or so, the group chat went something like this. 8/21/2015, 7:59 AM: Emily Newman: HI SAM HOWS UR DENTIST Katie Hehn: SAM HEY Emily Newman: SAM SAM SAM SAM Katie Hehn: SAM SAM SAM SAM Emily Newman: SAM x7 Katie Hehn: SSAM x6 Emily Newman: ARE YOU SH*T FREE YET Katie Hehn: What Emily Newman: CUZ WE ANNOYED IT OUT OF YOU Katie Hehn: haha Yeah Sam Sam Hunter: Jesus Christ 28 messages Katie Hehn: Lol Hi Sam They did it. They annoyed the friendship out of me. July 24, 2016, E-Team Week...
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...“The Blacklist” In season full of mediocre (or worse) new shows, NBC's The Blacklist has been a nice surprise. When I saw the pilot, I thought it had no business being as rock-solid as it was, but I wrote off the show's long-term prospects because I didn't think James Spader was enough to carry the show on a weekly basis, and the ongoing story about Red and Elizabeth seemed pretty obvious. However, after catching up on the series this past weekend and watching Monday's "General Ludd," I realized that I was only partially correct. Spader is mostly up to the challenge as The Blacklist's centerpiece, and the ongoing story is pretty obvious, but the show has done quite a bit of legwork to keep it compelling in the first eight weeks. Although it's likely that the plum post-Voice time period gives The Blacklist most of its ratings juice, I'm no longer shocked that it's the season's biggest hit. Here's why. 1. A good balance of procedural stories and ongoing mysteries I've had a few discussions with friends lately about what it means to be a broadcast drama in 2013. One of the takeaways has been that, more often than not, when people think of a broadcast drama, they tend to focus on shows that are almost exclusively procedural, relegating the obviously "great" examples like The Good Wife or Scandal to a small group of outliers that are more often compared to "great" cable shows. And while I love the kind of intense serialized stories those series can tell, shows like The Blacklist prove...
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...Maria Grant Sharpe CMLIT 004U Dr. Tachibana May 2, 2013 Japanese Society in Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami, one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read authors in Japan today, is labeled by many as a postmodernist. His short story “The Elephant Vanishes” and fictional novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” are prime examples of why this label has been placed on Murakami’s work. Both stories revolve around a central theme that since World War II the Japanese have lost a clear sense of self. Murakami reveals this central theme by overlaying a number of supporting themes, including the split between reality and imagination, and the overbearing effect of the past on the present. The central theme is furthered through vivid symbolism, the mundane activities of everyday life, and frequent references to western culture. Both stories beg the question: Do we have our own free will to act individually in this life, or are our actions predetermined by the mass of history that comes before us? Murakamiʼs Wind-Up Bird Chronicle probes contemporary Japanese life through the consciousness of a seemingly ordinary, slyly humorous, and increasingly likable narrator, Toru Okada, affectionately called “Mr. Wind-Up Bird.” His search for his wife Kumiko, who has left him, seems also a search for himself. Okada is 30, out of work, absent-minded and yet somehow hyper-vigilant at the same time. His character goes against all the...
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...Stanley is having a good time drinking and playing poker with his mates when Stella and Blanche come home from their night out. After a few pieces of dialogue Blanche turns on the radio, furiously Stanley comes into the room and smashes it to pieces. After seeing him do this Stella screams at him, “Drunk--drunk--animal thing, you!” (Williams 56). She then attempted to break up the poker game and this is when Stanley snapped; he hit Stella and she left her home to hold up in the landlords apartment. After calming down Stanley steps outside to yell for Stella. Eunice, the landlord, gets fed up with Stanley and lectures him on his behavior, “You can't beat on a woman an' then call 'er back! She won't come! And her goin' t' have a baby!... You stinker! You whelp of a Polack, you! I hope they do haul you in and turn the fire hose on you, same as the last time!” (Williams 60). However her actions were to no prevail because Stella came running back to Stanley when he shouted, “STELL-LAHHHHH!” (Williams 60). Feminism is prevalent in this scene because cleary Stanley has been abusive like this multiple times, yet Stella is still forgiving. Her reasoning could be that she loves him enough to forgive him; however, in this time period women are oppressed by the dominant male so a case could be made that she is forced to conform to whatever Stanley says. She knows Stanley has authority to hit her and she is dependant on him so to defy him would mean jeopardizing her “loving” relationship. In scene...
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...Onde situationer: Fra eksperiment til virkelighed Af Jens Lenler bragt i Politiken den 17.5.2005 For 33 år siden foretog en amerikansk psykolog et eksperiment, som på seks dage forvandlede unge studerende til sadistiske monstre. Efter hans mening giver eksperimentet et svar på, hvorfor alting gik så galt i Abu Ghraib-fængslet i Irak. En historie om bødlen i os alle begynder i august 1971, i en kælder under Stanford University i Californien, hvor psykologen Philip Zimbardo overvåger sit eksperiment fra et kikhul i en skillevæg. Han skimter en smal og dunkel korridor uden vinduer. Tre fangevogtere patruljerer i kakibrune uniformer. De bærer hver en fløjte, en politistav og store solbriller med refleksglas. Sceneriet er en tro kopi af et fængsel. Døre med ståltremmer forsegler tre små celler, hvor i alt ni fanger kan ligge på feltsenge. Mændene er iført tynde, kjolelignende bomuldskitler, der når dem til midt på låret. Under stoffet er de nøgne, og på fødderne bærer de gummisandaler. En jernkæde klemmer om deres ene ankel. De kostumeprægede uniformer var det eneste, der skilte de unge amerikanere, da eksperimentet gik i gang. Det har kun varet i en håndfuld døgn. Men hvilke døgn. Philip Zimbardo havde ikke i sin vildeste forskerfantasi forudset, hvordan begivenhederne ville udvikle sig. For i det kunstige fængsel klæder fangevogterne deres fanger nøgne. De tvinger dem til at rense lokummer med de bare næver, hoppe englehop med flagrende kønsorganer og råbe idiotiske...
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...Lord of the Rings The Two Towers As we learn through the first book we come to see that the company of the “Lord of The Rings” goes through hard trials. There is much more to come through their journey though especially in the book of “The Two Towers.” In the book of “The Two Towers” Frodo baggins, and Samwise Gamgee must journey on their own to finish the task that was left for Frodo. While Aragorn II Elessar, Legolas the elf, and Gimli the dwarf search for Peregin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, most commonly known as Merry and pippin. It all starts with Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli searching for Merry and Pippin. The three adventurers go off through the fields tracking down those two hobbits that have been captured by the nasty orcs. The leader of the orcs is none other than the huge appalling Ugluk. He leads his team of orcs, which are known as the Uruk-hai Scouts, to Isengard. That way Saruman could have the hobbits and find out where the ring is. Their plan taking the hobbits to Isengard ended faster than they had expected for they were attacked by Rohirrim. The orcs tried to fight valiantly, but it still ended in ruins for they could not putt up a good fight because they were being shot at by arrows, and their enemy was behind trees on horseback so they couldn’t determine where they were most of the time. While the Orcs were fighting the Rohirrims, Merry and Pippin started to sneak away from the orcs clutches. They successfully escape and begin to head into the “Forrest...
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...he 1964 world première of “Mary Poppins” was held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and it was the kind of spectacle for which the Disney organization had become famous. Throngs of screaming fans were greeted by Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Snow White and the dwarfs, as well as by entertainers who gestured toward the movie’s Edwardian setting: a twelve-piece pearly band, chimney-sweep dancers, valets dressed as bobbies, and a bevy of pretty Disneyland hostesses, whose traditional uniforms (kilts and black velvet riding helmets) suggested a general Englishness. Hollywood luminaries arrived in chauffeured automobiles, the women in ball gowns and mink stoles (Angie Dickinson, Maureen O’Hara, Suzanne Pleshette), the men wearing dinner jackets (Edward G. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen). The arrival of the movie’s principals aroused muted excitement: Julie Andrews, who played Mary Poppins, had never appeared in a movie before, and Dick Van Dyke—the chimney sweep Bert—became much better known after the film’s release. Then Walt Disney himself arrived, stepping out of a stretch limousine and gallantly reaching a hand into the car to help his wife, Lillian, onto the pavement. Disney was by then immensely famous, appearing on his own television show every Sunday night. He had carefully engineered his entrance: when his car pulled up, the Disney characters mobbed it, and soon afterward clouds of balloons were released into the air. Inside the packed twelve-hundred-seat theatre...
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...3M's POST-IT NOTEPADS "NEVER MIND. I'LL DO IT MYSELF." Near the end of 1978, bleak reports came back to the headquarters of Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) Corporation in St. Paul from a four-city test market: This Post-itTM notepads idea was a real stinker. This came as no surprise, of course, to many of 3M's most astute observers of new product ideas; this one had smelled funny to them from the beginning. The company had ignored Post-it before it was a notepad, when the product-to-be was just an adhesive that didn't adhere very well. The first related product to reach the market was a sticky bulletin board whose sales were less than exciting. So why was it still around? For five years this odd material kept turning up like a bad penny in the pocket of Spencer Silver, the chemist who had mixed it up in the first place. Even after the adhesive had evolved into a stickum-covered bulletin board, and then into notepad glue, the manufacturing department said they couldn't mass-produce the pads. The 3M marketing crew also said you could only sell these things if you gave them away, because who would pay a dollar for scratch paper? So when the test market reports arrived, it seemed everyone who'd disparaged the Post-it notepad was right after all: 3M was finally going to do the merciful thing and bury the remains. Only one last try by two executives, Geoffrey Nicholson and Joseph Ramey, saved those little yellow self-stick notes from oblivion. Nicholson and Ramey knew 3M's marketing...
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...Mary and Max It is 1976, an 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) is a lonely little girl living in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Her relatively poor family cannot afford to buy her toys or nice clothing, and she is teased by children at her school due to an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. Her father is distant and her alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother provides no support. The closest thing she has to a friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, Len Hislop, a World War II veteran who lost his legs as a prisoner of war and has developed agoraphobia. One day, she decides to write a letter to someone living in New York City: by pure chance she chooses Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from a telephone directory. Max turns out to be a morbidly obese 44-year-old whose various mental problems (including anxiety attacks and overeating) have left him unable to form close bonds with other people. Max decides to write back to Mary, and the two become friends. Over time, Mary's increasingly sensitive questions about the adult world give Max progressively worse anxiety attacks, and he is ultimately institutionalized. During his time there, Max is diagnosed with depression and Asperger syndrome. Now aware of why he has difficulty relating to other people, Max finds a new lease on life and resumes his correspondence with Mary. The two remain friends for the next two decades, keeping one another updated on various events in their lives. Mary (Toni Colette)...
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...Secrets of Speed Seduction, Home Study Course Book and Workbook: How To Create An Instantaneous Sexual Attraction in Any Woman You Meet!!! COPYRIGHT 1994, Ross Jeffries. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or any means without written permission from the author. Published in the USA. For more information or free catalog, contact: Ross Jeffries 6245 Bristol Parkway, Suite 275 Culver City, CA 90230 DISCLAIMER Neither the author, nor the publisher of this book take any responsibility for the use or misuse of the information it presents. The reader is warned that this material presents extremely powerful technology, to be used at the readers own risk. This book is presented for information and entertainment purposes only. Be warned, therefore, that this book neither asserts the legality of any of the methods it describes, and the author unequivocally disclaims any responsibility for damages resulting from the use of any of the techniques or the consequences of implementing any contained herein. "Give me five minutes to talk away my face, and I'll bed the Queen of France." ... Voltaire "I come to you with only words, Looks and money I have none, But should desire require it, My words will bear me out!" ... Speed Seducer's Creed INTRODUCTION WHY SPEED SEDUCTION? One of the toughest realities we have to face as men is, that for...
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...MATILDA BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BY THE SAME AUTHOR James and the Giant Peach Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny, the Champion of the World The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More The Enormous Crocodile The Twits George's Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes The BFG Dirty Beasts The Witches Boy The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Going Solo Roald Dahl MATILDA Illustrations by Quentin Blake VIKING KESTREL For Michael and Lucy VIKING KESTREL Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books |N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1988 First American edition published 1988 3 5 7 9 10 6 4 Text copyright © Roald Dahl, 1988 Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 1988 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from "In Country Sleep" from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1947,1952 Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Library of Congress catalog card number: 88-40312 ISBN 0-670-82439-9 Printed...
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...The Truth: About Managing People . . . and Nothing but the Truth Stephen P. Robbins, Ph.D. PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. “If someone wants to unleash the truth of people management, read this book. Author Robbins addresses the most critical challenges organizations face today in a concise and entertaining way.” — SUBIR CHOWDHURY Executive Vice President, American Supplier Institute Author of the best-selling The Power of Six Sigma and The Talent Era: Achieving a High Return On Talent “Stephen Robbins does it again! A prolific scholar and writer, he cuts through the research and theory to deliver immediately useful and essential insights for the effective management of people. I have never seen anything quite like The Truth. Excellent for all of us who don’t take the time to keep up with leading edge thinking and practice in the field of management.” — ERIC G. STEPHAN, Professor Organizational Leadership & Strategy Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University “This is a clever book. Stephen Robbins has put together a book I wish I had written. It’s a quick reference written for practicing managers, social scientists, and anyone interested in managing people. Robbins’‘best of ’ approach, as well as the reference materials each section draws on, make this book a ‘must have’ for practical, reliable, and valid information on the important leadership/management/people topics of the day.” — RANDALL P WHITE, PH.D. . Principal, The Executive Development Group LLC Co-author...
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