...ARTICLE ANALYSIS BRIEF SUMMARY According to a new survey by recruiting firm Adecco, hiring managers are three times more likely to hire a worker that is 50-years-old or older than hire a millennial. The survey of five hundred hiring managers was conducted in late August, and defined millennial workers as those born between 1981 and 2000, meaning workers age 31 and under. The recruiters seemed most concerned with millennials’ long-term commitment, professionalism and reliability. They also said millennial workers need major improvement in their interview skills. Based on the survey results, there are 5 interview mistakes millennials make: • Wearing inappropriate interview attire • Posting questionable social media content • Don’t ask enough questions • Haven’t done their research • Overconfident in their abilities and experience. Lessons Learned • In an interview, always dress appropriately. Stay away from flashy jewelry, plunging necklines, too-short hemlines, t-shirts, and shoes that are too casual or too difficult to walk in. Never wear anything that can be distracting, so if you have to think twice about it—skip it. • Never post inappropriate or explicit photos, share too much personal information about yourself or others, write with poor grammar or spelling, or use profanity on social media sites. • Do internet research on the company, position and interviewer; read as many recent articles as you can find about the industry; and use your LinkedIn connections...
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...TALKING POINT PAPER ON MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE Wanda Teasley Assignment 2: BUS520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Evangeline Jefferson 04/09/2015 TALKING POINT PAPER ON MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE * Synthesize the concept of motivation, and examine the substantial reasons why motivation is difficult to understand. * What is motivation * the driving force behind the energy needed to complete a task(psychologydictionary.org/motivation) * manner that begins, influences, and retain goal-oriented manners (psychology.about.com) * what causes us to act (psychology.about.com) * Understanding motivation is difficult * complex and hard to teach (Berry, John) * Evaluate the potential effectiveness of the model positioning of motivation, and propose at least one (1) action that the organization can take in order to apply the concept. One of the models positioning of motivation include the 5 factor model: * According to (Robins, Stephen P page 125) the five factor model comprises: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience. * these traits indicate to management how an individual will behave in various situations Detail the feedback control loop, and suggest one (1) way that the organization can use the feedback control loop to determine whether management’s actions are motivating or demotivating. * Feedback control loop allows...
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...found a castle. Inside lived a fire-witch, Brandel. He welcomed them in and introduced himself. Since everyone was hungry, Morwen asked Brandel if he had enough food to feed three “humans”, a 7’11” flying donkey, two cats, and a dragon. “Yes, I do. Follow me.” Before everyone left the room, a strong wind blew into the room. Whooosh! It was Kazul. She presumably left since she couldn’t fit inside the castle and sleeping outside was extremely uncomfortable. Brandel led the group to a pantry with an endless supply of food. After they ate, Cimorene decided to check on Mendanbar to make sure he was ok. She asked Brandel for a magic mirror and called Mendanbar. Nobody answered. Cimorene knew something was wrong. Everyone convinced her there is no point in going back because if the wizards are invading the castle, having a group of magicians and witches isn’t going to help, the sword is. So, convinced, Cimorene decided to stay. The next morning, Telemain, who regained consciousness before dinner yesterday, observed the mirror and decided to ask it where Mendanbar’s sword was. The mirror replied and showed a picture of a room with Arona Michaelear Grinogion Vamist and Antorell, a wizard who Cimorene kept melting (to get rid of a wizard, you have to use a spell which melts them), and an unsheathed sword on the table between them. Mendanbar’s sword. When Brandel walked into the room, he immediately recognized the room. “That house belongs to Arona Michaelear Grinogion Vamist.” The following...
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...How to Approach a Case This is not the only approach that exists, but it’s a worthwhile one to try as you get started. 1. GETTING ORIENTED It’s useful to think of a case analysis as digging deeper and deeper into the layers of a case. 1. You start at the surface, Getting Oriented and examining the overall case landscape. 2. Then you begin to dig, Identifying Problems, as well as possible alternative solutions. 3. Digging deeper, Performing Analyses you identify information that exposes the issues, gather data, perform calculations that might provide insight. 4. Finally, you begin Action Planning to outline short-, medium-, and long-term well-defined steps. Typically, you’ll need to repeat this process multiple times, and as you do, you'll discover new analytical directions, evolving your assessment of the case and conclusion. a. Case Analysis Overview Analyzing a case is not just about digging. It’s also about climbing back out to examine what you’ve unearthed, deciding what it means, determining what to analyze next, and digging some more. Often your examination of information about a problem will change your idea of what the real problem is and about what to analyze next. The process is similar to when a detective investigating a crime shifts his or her opinion about the most likely suspect as more clues come to light. Gather your materials and tools. These include the case and any other related materials to supplement your reading...
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...The Curse The Curse - Time, point of view, symbolism and figurative language by Nicki Time Looking at the “time” in any kind of literature, is to be viewed at, in two different ways. First there’s the level of events, which describes what happens in the story, as it actually happens. It’s a chronological timeline if you want to say so. Then there’s the level of thoughts, making room for flashbacks, flash forwards in a timeline. In “The Curse” the level of events and level of thoughts follow each other most of the way. So if I put up a timeline, they would be very alike. The timeline for the level of events starts out with our main character Mitchell, is in the bar a late night in august, when a group of young men, probably affected by drugs, enters the bar. After the “last call” a girl enters the bar, asking for some change for the cigarette automat. The men begin to rape this girl, and when Mitchell tries to call the police, he’s being shoved. The next thing that happens is, that the police arrives and start to treat the girl and interrogate Mitchell about what had happened. When the police are gone, Mitchell is in the bar alone with Bob (who’s the manager of the bar). Mitchell gets home, and sits by himself until his wife joins him while he start to tell what had happened. The next day he tells his children about the incident and goes to work, where he talks with Reggie, a customer. To the level of thoughts, Mitchell starts in the bar after the police have left...
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...How to write a Literature Review: Step 1: Read a lot. Sounds simplistic, but the fact is that you do have to read a lot, and read with care and purpose. There are things that you can do within the process to make your life easier, and the purpose of this short document is to point some of them out. Hopefully, this will help. However, there is no substitute for good, thorough, and hard work. When you start your reading, start broadly. If you have an area you are interested in, such as computers in education, multi-media, distance education, web-based instruction, or some other specific concentration, start your reading in those areas. Course assigned reading will help, but you will have to branch outwards and inwards. Don’t be afraid to follow an area that seems not to be related to your area. You are trying to define your interests. Allow yourself the freedom to do that. Here are some tips on how you might branch out, and/or focus in: A. Look carefully at the references. Should the author raise a salient point that interests you and they happen to cite somebody, look up the citation and read the original source. The original source will have its own references, follow these. Repeat as necessary. B. Read from tangentially related fields. Don’t be afraid to look outside of the literature in IT to other areas. Educational Psychology, Human Resources, Computer Science, and Communications Studies are but a few of the related fields with important information...
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...The penis By Hanif Kureishi This essay will focus on how Hanif Kureishi uses humor and different points of view to portray his image of the human relationship to and appreciation of objects and likewise. Hanif Kureishi makes use of two of the three theories that has been set around humor. Hanif Kureishi uses ‘the relief theory’ and ‘the incongruity theory’. The relief theory is based around the fact that the reader is going to have a set of taboos or subjects that they do not like to talk about or discuss. Some of these taboos are often things as pornography, genitalia and sex in general, all of which we see in the story. Talking about or being confronted with these taboos will often cause an individual to feel ashamed or nervous. So by confronting the reader with his or her taboos Hanif Kureishi is forcing the reader to deal with his or her shame and/or nervousness and the most common way of doing so is by laughing. Hanif Kureishi implements this in the text by creating a main character, in this case Doug, whom is an “actor” in the industry of pornography, and by writing very obviously about Doug’s work experiences, doings and deeds. And of course there is the huge walking and talking penis… Should it be the case that pornography, genitalia nor sex is not included in the readers list of taboos Hanif Kureishi also makes use of the incongruity theory. The incongruity theory is base aroung the fact that the reader has an assumption about how the world is and works, about...
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...“American Beauty” - An analysis of the movie with focus on Carolyn & Lester Burnham The Burnham’s seem to live the ‘American Dream’. They have good jobs, two expensive cars, and a nice home in the suburbs, and a healthy teenager. The family is portrayed as a normal, happy family, but if you do as the film tag says and “look closer”, you see that it isn’t true. Instead, they are living in a “suburban prison”. Carolyn Burnham is the lonely wife of Lester Burnham and can be summed up in five words: materialistic, ambitious, seemingly successful, yet insecure, and a perfectionist. You see her fragile and insecure sides in a few scenes, for instance, when she tries to sell a house, and it doesn’t go as planned, she get’s more and more desperate. She’s alone in the house when she breaks down and allows herself to cry, but first she makes sure that nobody can see her by closing the blinds. She only let herself be vulnerable for a quick moment, before she gets angry, and starts to slap herself in the face, screaming: “Stop it! Shut up! You’re weak! You Baby! Shut up!” It’s a way to remind her that she’s strong, but the slapping is also a way of punishing herself for being weak. To most people crying is a natural thing to do when you’re sad, but for Carolyn it’s a shameful behavior. After the big fight scene at the dinner table, Carolyn goes to Jane’s room to talk, and she tells her daughter: “You cannot count on anyone except yourself. You know, it’s sad but...
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...few times. As I’ve gotten older, I’m much more mindful of the things I say and to whom I say them. However, I’m just as outgoing, if not more. I am a “perfect” balance of being shy and putting myself out there. It all depends on the context in which interaction is happening. At work, I meet strangers everyday and I don’t mind making conversation with them as I walk them to a table and talking to them as if I’d known them for years. In a new classroom setting, I don’t generally mind being myself—but the shyness of the people around me makes me feel even more reserved. I’m generally very comfortable talking to new people and absolutely love listening and learning about others. It has always been strange to me that as much as I love talking to people, I’m absolutely terrified of speaking in front of them. I’m typically bubbly and fun and the second the spotlight is on me, I get very quiet and feel terribly awkward. As I go on with the speech, it gets worse because I’m worried that people see me as some shaky freak. One thing that I would hope this class could help me with is to communicate a point more effectively. I typically know what I want to say and what I’m trying to get across to someone, but sometimes I don’t know if I’m doing it in the most effective way. I believe that the speeches alone in this class will help me out; by going through the speech myself and watching classmates and see how they present their ideas could give me ideas for...
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...client base to achieve individuals who up to this point have not had an entry to such innovation. Being digitally joined has gotten to be continually basic to economic, instructive, and social headway. The objective of this exploration subsidizing activity is to create new information that will help stretch the capacities of figuring engineering better to serve social and economic difficulties of underserved groups, both provincial and urban. The expression Data and Communication Technology for Development are likewise utilized as a part of the scholarly research group to depict this same objective. Information and Communication Technologies must be moderate, available, and important. Novel methodologies in figuring engineering have the potential for the extraordinary effect in a scope of regions, including instruction, human services, and economic improvement. The significance that exploration projects can have around there is noteworthy since there are troublesome mechanical issues to be unraveled to understand that vision. For example, work in last-mile organizing bases, making instinctive client interfaces, creating ease processing gadgets and making applicable applications in regions (Werthner, 2009). Research Purpose For my research, I will be aiming to know how ICT helps small and huge business in Taiwan. I will utilize an ethnographic approach and will use the main part of my field exploration talking with and talking with business people and individuals who are...
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...this article, it leads me to believe that I don’t know if the author is credible or just giving information based on experiences. The article seems to be taking snippets from other sources. The article seems to give insight where most people are looking for it, the article can help with articulating what you want to say and give you pointers on how to keep on track during a speech. But as it is not a long article it leaves room for improvement. The point of this article is to help people understand that talking in public is hard but you can easily overcome small fears with a little help. One great piece of information is “Don’t apologize or make excuses” (2016, p.2) In turn, 3 public speaking myths busted seems to be a lot like my above article. I am not sure who the author is but it gives the reader help before going into a speech. “Memorize everything” (2016, p.5) is one of the sections that is busted, you can’t be expected to memorize everything, but having note cards there is always pleasant just in case you fumble. The articles point is to help the speaker overcome the issues we all face, busting the myths and reading about them can help an individual understand that you cannot be perfect, but you can try your best to overcome issues that arise. References 3 public speaking myths busted. (2016). Communication Briefings, 5. Draw a blank during a speech? Recover. (2016). Communication Briefings,...
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...PAGES with 1-inch margins, an 11 or 12-point font, and a cover sheet on top. Shorter papers are acceptable, but make sure you have thoroughly answered the questions. Submissions that exceed the page limit will be penalized. You are advised to use your notes, the readings, and lectures to compose your answers. 1. (35 points) External Analysis: Please assemble a Porter’s Five Forces analysis of the industry in which Excel operates. As they operate in multiple business lines, you will need to be concise and precise to cover all the relevant information. 2. (35 points) Internal Analysis: Analyze the internal resources and capabilities of Excel. Name two strengths and two weaknesses and support your arguments for why they are strengths and weaknesses. Do not worry about detailing how to overcome the weaknesses at this point. Make sure you are talking about INTERNAL resources! 3. (30 points) Going Forward: Study Excel’s mission and vision, their business lines, and the answers you have provided above to decide what Excel should do to remain competitive and adapt to their changing environment. a. Some hints: i. Pay attention to what the board wants the CEO (refer to the last section of the case, “Decisions”). Is the board’s desire that Excel invest in all four business lines realistic? ii. Also, Excel is NOT considering building an Ethanol plant, so do not get confused about their goals. iii. Be creative in answering this question; you will earn points as long as you support your answers...
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...concise orderly retelling of the contents of a passage or a text and is ordinarily about ⅓ or ¼ as long as the original. The student who is in the habit of searching for the main points, understanding them, learning them, and reviewing them is educating himself. The ability to get at the essence of a matter is very important. The first and the most important step in making a summary is reading the passage thoroughly. After it write out clearly in your own words the main points of the selection. Subordinate or eliminate minor points. Retain the paragraphing of the original, unless the summary is extremely short. Preserve the proportion of the original. Change direct narration to indirect whenever it is possible, use words instead of word combinations and word combinations instead of sentences. Omit figures of speech, repetitions, and most examples. Don’t use personal pronouns, use proper names. Do not introduce any extra material by way of opinion, interpretation or appreciation. Read the selection again and criticize and revise your words. Helpful expressions to use while summarizing text: At the beginning (in the beginning) of the story (passage) the author describes (depicts, dwells on, touches upon, explains, introduces, mentions, recalls, characterizes, analyses, comments on, enumerates, points out, generalizes, criticizes, makes a few critical remarks on, reveals, gives a summary of, gives his account of, makes an excursus into, etc.). The story (passage) begins with...
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...Post-presentation Stage Preparation Stage 1. Research your topic well (as you would when writing an essay) so that you can speak authoritatively and persuasively. If reading texts are a challenge to you, you can use a very versatile, user-friendly interactive software (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) that has been installed in the Academic Learning Commons Lab (B221). Using your cursor, you can just point your cursor at a word that you don’t understand, hit the Control key and the meaning of the word and its uses will automatically pop up on the screen for you. (NOTE: In order to use this software effectively, you need to open your document using Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer). 2. Organize your points in the most effective order that is appropriate for the topic that you are presenting. This is similar to preparing for a written assignment. However, one important difference is that your written preparation for your presentation should NOT be in complete sentences. You should prepare a few note cards where your points are presented in outline form or in the form of a mind-map. If you write in complete sentences, and in a paragraph form, you might succumb to the temptation to...
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...The current state of my body image for the most part is pretty positive. In the past I’ve struggled a lot with body image and it has been something that I have had to work through. I would say at this point in my life I’m probably the most at peace with my body image than I have ever been. It has taken me a very long time to get to the point of having a positive body image and even though I still have insecurities, for the most part I feel pretty good about myself. One of the biggest things that challenges me in having a positive body image is when I go shopping. A lot of the time I find clothes that I really like but they may not have my size or the clothes are in my size but for some reason they don’t look right on my body. This has been something that has always stressed me out from a young age because I have always felt bad when I don’t fit into certain types of clothes. Another thing that challenges me is when I see people on TV criticizing people because of their weight. I’ve watched numerous talk shows where they will be talking about a celebrity and mock them for gaining weight. In turn this makes me feel even more insecure about my weight, especially if I weigh more than the person they are mocking. However; with my body I have learned to embrace the fact that having curves isn’t a bad thing. Being short sometimes benefits me because clothes that might be too short on other people fit me perfectly. I’ve also just overall embraced the fact that my body is my own and as...
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