...strategic nonviolent conflict Learn more about the experienced nonviolent action trainers who shared their ideas and resources during the dialogue. Summary of Dialogue Moving Nonviolent Action Theory to Practice Enormous and exciting developments have taken place over recent decades to make this strategic theory available and accessible to people around the world, notably through education and mainstream acceptance of the theory. Core concepts of successful nonviolent action are support, careful planning and strong leadership. It is essential to have a vision and strategic plan and to develop the tactics and campaigns necessary to achieve it. Most often, movements tend to happen through local grassroots organizations and unions, in response to circumstances in a place or because of the creativity of a group of people. It addition to educating people on their rights, nonviolent action also gives people an alternative way of expressing themselves. Dealing with Repression The effectiveness of tactics depends on the context in which the nonviolent struggle...
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...settings. It is concerned with: - The study of behavior in work settings. - The application of psychology principles to change work behavior. Therefore I/O psychology has two objectives: 1. To conduct research in an effort to increase our knowledge and understanding of human work behavior. To apply that knowledge to improve work behavior, the work environment, and the psychological conditions of the worker. Roots and History of Industrial/Organizational Psychology The Beginnings. Around the turn of the 20th century, Frederick Taylor, an engineer, believed that scientific principles could be applied to the study of work behavior. “One best method” Time-and-motion studies - work tasks are broken down into simple movements. Scientific management, a movement started by Taylor, was a method of using scientific principlesto improve the efficiency and productivity of jobs. Drawbacks of Taylor’s philosophy: - Complex jobs, demanding sophisticated skills. - Fewer and fewer people are engaged in physical labor. - For some jobs there is no “one best method”. The Great Depression Years and World War II. Studies at the Western Electric Company in Hawthorne, Illinois: Elton Mayo and his colleagues examined the effects of the physical environment on worker productivity. Results of the study found that productivity increased regardless of level of lighting. The Hawthorne effect refers to changes in behavior occurring as a function of...
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...A Grammatical Analysis in Three Secrets to Academic Success What will readers do after reading a writing style? There are many things that readers may do after reading a writing style, such as making judgments, and thinking about how information might be used in the future. Analysis is also an important thing that a good reader done. People can analysis about the author’s ideas, techniques, and patterns in the writing style. Language is involved with almost everything we do as human beings. We cannot live without language. To capture a language, Learning about English grammar pattern is a dimension that would be mean for achievement. Analysis a writing style can help us discovering the language to express what we read. Three Secrets to Academic Success was written by Elana Peled, Ed.D. She is the founder of Academic Success for All. She started writing to help people who struggle to achieve academic success. This book reveals the powerful secrets that underlie academic success. The second secret is the learning creativity. It is about that every single person on the planet has the capacity to be creative. Our creativity is involved in how we make sense of the world and is intimately connected with our ability to learn. Based on my analysis in her writing style, she had written this chapter in grammatical correct English. One of the most important factors is that sentences were not formed by words alone but by structural units. The author had conformed her words, phrases, and...
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...Creative Talk and Analysis Doug Edwards PHL/458 3/7/2016 Bennigna Jenkins Sir Ken Robinson Feb, 2006 Monterey, California Creating an Education that Nurtures (rather than undermines) Creativity From the onset Ken addresses the audience and soon after jokes with the crowd (which he does through out his speech) this gets the audience engaged and focused on what he is about to say to them. He then tells the audience what he wants to talk to them about and says he wants to talk about three themes; one is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity the variety and arrangement of it. Second is it puts us in a place where we have know idea what is going to happen in terms of the future and how it may play out. Everybody has an interest in education partly it is because it takes us into the future that is unknown. He states a few stats on education and the unpredictability of it as soon as five years down the road. The third part is the extraordinary capacities that children have towards innovation. Kids will take a chance at creativity they are not afraid of mistakes at being creative. For example if they are in a play that they have lines to say and forget their line they will say something because they are not afraid of making a mistake. Saying something wrong does not mean you are being creative but if you are not prepared of being wrong you will never come up with anything original. Most people that...
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...Rubric Examples Oral Presentation I | |Beginning |Novice |Proficient |Exemplary | | |The presentation is at a |The presentation may show |The presentation is |The presentation is exemplary | | |beginning stage. |flashes of quality, but could |acceptable, but could be | | | | |be improved in several |improved in a few important | | | | |important ways. |ways. | | |Content |The presentation does not |Important information is |Information is complete with |Information is complete and | | |include information on the|missing, or there are few |basic supporting details, |well supported by detail, | | |major points. |supporting details. |increasing audience knowledge|significantly increasing the | | | | |at least to some degree. |audience's knowledge of the | | | | ...
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...accomplish greatness during their lives. Creative ideas are the foundation of the creative process. When creative individuals run across a problem that needs to be resolved - this is when they start coming up with their ideas. Problems can have a variety of options for resolution. This paper will cover how film mogul Steven Spielberg and dancer Pina Bausch used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Famous Creative Thinkers In this paper specific problems and ideas that these individuals sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems will be discussed. Each person’s social, personal, or political environments will be reviewed on how they contributed to their creativity. Additionally, the creative process of each person, including obstacles they faced and a comparison of their creative processes underlying each individual’s work will be reviewed. Lastly, a critique of their ideas will be reviewed answering the questions if they could have done anything differently and if their bodies of work fit into the existing framework of understanding in their respective fields and how their work advanced further understanding in their respective fields. Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg has been a pivotal force in the filmmaking world. His films have explored our fears (Jaws, 1975) and our childlike curiosity (ET, 1982 and Peter Pan, Hook, 1991). He has sparked our passion for adventure (Indiana Jones, 1984 and...
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...and Challenges of Management in Global Scenario. 2. PLANNING 9 Nature and purpose of planning - Planning process - Types of plans – Objectives - - Managing by objective (MBO) Strategies - Types of strategies - Policies - Decision Making - Types of decision - Decision Making Process - Rational Decision Making 3. ORGANIZING 9 Nature and purpose of organizing - Organization structure - Formal and informal groups Iorganization - Line and Staff authority - Departmentation - Span of control - Centralization and Decentralization - Delegation of authority - Staffing - Selection and Recruitment - Orientation - Career Development - Career stages – Training - - Performance Appraisal. 4. DIRECTING 9 Creativity and Innovation - Motivation and Satisfaction - Motivation Theories - Leadership Styles - Leadership theories - Communication - Barriers to effective communication - Organization Culture - Elements and types of culture - Managing cultural diversity. |5. |CONTROLLING |9 | | |Process of controlling - Types of control - Budgetary and non-budgetary control Q techniques - Managing Productivity - Cost | | | |Control - Purchase Control – Maintenance Control - Quality Control - Planning operations. | | TEXT BOOKS: 1. Stephen P. Robbins and Mary Coulter, 'Management',...
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...William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Instructor: Robert Dubose William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Robert Dubose Creative Spark Creativity is a subject that is very disputable amongst psychologists. Psychologists have argued on a definition for the word creativity for many years now. Regardless of what most psychologists chose to think now, most believe that it is a creative act no matter big or small that is unusual and most likely become very useful to society. The video I watched was by John Bohannon and dancers from the Black Label Movement. The name of the video is tilted “Dance vs. PowerPoint”, a modest proposal and was filmed at TEDxBrussels, which was also posted in November 2011. John explains in this video how one of his friends tried to tell him about a science experiment and just simply couldn’t. His friend finally explains what the experiment was about to John, and then he tells his friend that “Maybe next time if you had dancers to try to better explain it will be much easier. He then tells his friend that numerous scientists have started using dancers to describe many different scientific things simply because it is more sufficient. Dancing PHD is the group of scientists that have started using dancers to explain various things. He starts to explains why it would be more productive to use dancers and instead of PowerPoint presentations. John then gives an explanation on how it is a waste...
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...Master Business Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), University of Amsterdam THE INFLUENCE OF PHISICAL ACTIVITY ON CREATIVITY THE WALK TO INNOVATIVE SUCCES! Abstract This paper is an analytical review about the possible relation between physical activity and creativity. Relative new research studies show promising results for a possible positive relationship between walking or standing meetings and increased levels of creativity at the workplace. By creating a conceptual graph and discussing several models, the potential role of physical activity in the creativity process is shown and the important role of the organisational environment. Although future research is clearly needed, stimulating physical activity might be a useful new management practice to enhance creativity in companies. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management Paper Introduction Artists, musicians, writers, have used body movement to help overcome mental blocks and lack of inspiration. Also, historical figures like Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Charles Darwin, frequently walked to find solutions for deeper questions and thoughts (Loehle, 1990). For example, Harry s. Truman woke up at five in the morning for a ‘vigorous’ walk of a mile or two, wearing a business suit and tie. More modern methods are also used by Steve Jobs who is well known for his walking meetings and Mark Zuckerberg who has also been holding meetings on foot. It seems that they all intuitively knew...
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...Ford SWOT Analysis Ford Motor Company has been a well-established company in the automobile industry since the early 1900’s and has been going strong ever since. Starting on a small-scale, Ford has become one of the leading international automobile makers in the industry, and continues to reevaluate itself in order to gain a competitive edge. One tool that a company can use is a SWOT analysis, which is used to identify internal and external factors that may affect the company moving forward in accomplishing its goals. The internal factors include strengths and weaknesses of the company, while external factors are comprised of opportunities and threats. Each of these areas helps a company determine how they want to adapt to their ever-changing surroundings and how they improve from their current state. A strength that numerous Ford customers can agree on is the brand recognition that it has because it is such a well established global power. The globalization of Ford is has helped it grow and is now established in the largest economies in the world. Along with this comes the customer loyalty, because people develop a sense of trust with Ford once attracted initially by the brand power. Also, the brand is recognizable and similar in perception to many customers because the cars do not vary as much from region to region, somewhat creating a Ford community. The brand power enables Ford to attract the customers initially, and then they are able to develop long lasting relationships...
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...TRISTE, TRISTE ANALYSIS • Triste Triste explores the aftermath of intimate sexual interaction as a metaphor for artistic creativity. • Through intimate activity (sex) she discovers an out of body situation, a sense that her spirit becomes free • Explores the multi-faceted experiences of women and their roles • The poem begins hopeful and ends melachonic • Harwood utilizes figurate language which is highly emotional and suggestive • Shift in tense – starts present, ends past • Imprisoned heart is symbolic of the restrictions artists feel JUXTAPOSES/DIRECT COMPARISONS • Mourning to ecstasy (orgasm) • Freedom to entrapment • Strength to vulnerability TECHNIQUES • Harwood uses a complex rhyming scheme to further itterate the complexity of the poem relating to her intense feelings and emotions. • Figurative language, which creates an era of the poem, which is highly emotional. Through suggestive imagery and direct speech “ I was with you in agony, remember your promise of paradise, and hammers and hammers, “remember me” Gwen Harwood addresses her audience, manipulating them to determine their personal feelings on what she is saying. • The use of third person portrays an objective feel about the poem, restricting the level of conversational feeling. It increases the sense of detachment. • “Their blood-black curtains tight” Is alliteration combined with negative connotation to extenuate human’s blindness to occurrences in life? ...
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...Cotton production, Chinese manufacturing and the “snowflake” market of used clothes. Unlike other industries, “consumer electronics that shifted from UK to US to Japan to Hong Kong to Taiwan and to China”, the United States still maintains dominance in cotton industry along with China. Using Porter’s “5” forces, industry analysis reveals that the following factors influenced the T-Shirt globalization that drove value chain from country to country. #1) Industrialization with creativity, entrepreneurship and cooperation. • 18th century witnessed the exploding productivity of English cotton that dramatically lowered the prices and affordability of cotton products. Industrialization with the emerging technology benefitted the industry to reduce cost of production, a series of technical improvements in both spinning and weaving of yarns made large-scale production possible. • British demand during industrialization spurred the American dominance in cotton – in 1971 US was producing 2M pound of cotton whereas Asiatic countries were producing 400M pounds, but in next 10 years US production increased by 25 times and meeting 70% of England’s demand. • Movement in value chain - US achieved dominance due to mechanization (picking of cotton etc.), concentrating capital, labor and entrepreneurial...
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...the author is mainly talking about nonviolent action is depending on most of the people’s will, which is based on people’s agreement and obedience. However, most people think those who have wealth that can have power and the right for violence. In the author’s opinion, by changing people’s loyalties, behavior and other factors, nonviolent action can gain the power. It is significant to figure out why people obey and behave for having change in people’s agreement and obedience. Those successful nonviolent movements in the history have proved that people organized around are much stronger than armies and money. Furthermore, by having clear and achievable goal, successful movements also proved that people could be powerful. Although the victories they achieved were limited, the further impact was huge because they changed most of the people’s mind. What’s more, because of people’s hard work, creativity and excellent political analysis, they could have those successful movements. Therefore, people try to have more nonviolent action to achieved human rights. However, it is right to let people know what power is. One issue I like to talk about is that the author said: “They recognize that it is the people in a society who are the agents of change and that structural change is created from the ground up. They are not waiting for a person to lead them, because they understand that most government and corporate leaders will not take the lead to do what is right if their populations are...
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...a part of the war, therefore they were stressed out, they were frustrated, and the music kept them calm and made them feel like someone knows what they are going through. “How individuals use folklore expressions to deal with their experiences of the Vietnam War has also attracted folklorists’ attention. One of the examples is the analysis of dioramas created by a disabled Vietnam veteran, in which he portrayed scenes of battle and military experiences, such as firefighters, prisoner of war camps, torture pits, and ambushes” (Fink, p.184). There were three types of dioramas that were identified by the Vietnam veteran. These included people dealing with situations familiar to most Vietnam veterans, people reflecting personal memories, and those based on stories told by other veterans. This is an example of folk creativity that interested the folklorists. Dioramas are folk art and “this example shows how personal war traumas can be dealt with creativity through artistic expression” (Fink, p.184). “The roots of anti-Vietnam protest music can be traced back to those folksingers involved in the Civil Rights and nuclear disarmament movements of the late fifties and early sixties” (Scheurer, p.179). Folk artists like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and Paul Stokey took stands for racial brotherhood and international peace. It was not difficult for the musicians to shift the emphasis of their messages from “stop oppressing our black brothers” to “stop oppressing our yellow brothers” and...
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...TERMS OF REFERENCE Prepared on behalf of First Movement Ltd. In respect of a Marketing and Communications Audit (this is a piece of Market, Customer and Competitor analysis) Date 20th February 2014 1.0 Purpose The purpose of this document is to set out the scope of the requirements of First Movement Ltd. With regard to a marketing and communication audit (Market, Customer and Competitor Analysis) and to detail the basis under which Hoang H Dao, Ni Fu, Siyu Chen and Sok Mei Celina Lei (give yourself a name for your Consultancy group) with undertake this investigation. It reflects on why this activity is required, details the specific outcomes desired and sets out the proposed research activity, timeframe and cost in order to provide a basis for project allocation or further refinement. 2.0 Background Since 1988, First Movement Ltd., as a charity organisation, focus on working with learning disabled people; by creating projects in order to develop and promote their unique creativity. They aim to deliver arts projects including digital arts projects for people with learning disabilities. In addition, they also focus on supporting local artists and creative industries. Moreover, by placing those learning disabled people in a situation that allow them to have opportunities to work with other creative people thus to value them. The core issue of the organisation is focusing on learning disabled adults but there are also specific tailor made opportunities...
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