...Work-Life Balance Scale* A study regarding the six aspects of work-life balance scale Presented By: Tazeen Hamid Umer Qasim Presented To: Miss Saba Rana Final Research Project Human Resource Management Work-Life Balance Scale* Introduction Work-life (W-L) Balance Scale is meant to diagnose the level and areas of W-L balance in an organization, as perceived by its employees. It should be responded by their employees at various levels in different departments/sections. (Pareek, 2002) Creating a balance between one’s personal life and one’s professional life is now considered to be the very tool in achieving a prosperous multidimensional life. Organizations worldwide are trying hard to create a balance for their employees, which in turn would create a healthy and satisfied workforce that would allow any organization to grow successfully. The study presented here discusses work-life balance of fifty individuals (twenty five Working Males and twenty five Working Females) with respect to the following six aspects namely: 1. Social Needs 2. Personal Needs 3. Time Management 4. Team Work 5. Compensation and Benefits 6. Work The ability to combine work, family commitments and personal life is important for the wellbeing of all household members. It is also important for society as a whole, as it ensures that people have sufficient time, to socialize and participate in the life of the community. This chapter presents a selection of indicators...
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...his complications with concentration while reading long articles and books. Carr blames the Internet for retraining his brain and states that, “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory” (1). There could be many reasons for the change that Carr has noticed. Perhaps his age is changing the way his brain processes information. I doubt that the Internet is the cause of his concentration issues. Contrary to Carr’s opinion of the Internet creating concentration difficulties, I believe the Internet works as a tool to enable us to use our time more wisely, efficiently, and productively. I can now use my time more wisely, because the days wasted on trips to the library have become a thing of the past. Nowadays, the library comes to me. I find this to be a better use of my time and allows me time to pursue more enjoyable activities. Even Carr agrees that research has become easier, through the use of the Internet, when he states, “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after” (2). This proves to me that Carr sees the benefits that the Internet provides, by allowing him to use his time in a better, more efficient way. This makes me wonder...
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...H1 S REFLECTIVE JOURNAL Technology and its impact on my life. Prathna Ramesh Technology today plays a crucial role in our daily lives, affecting nearly every activity we perform. Everyone is in constant interaction with technology in some way or the other. The most significant impact of the rapid technological development can be seen in the evolution of electronic devices like computers, mobile phones, and other gadgets. The number of people using those devices is increasing by the minute and we witness a growing dependency towards the use of such gadgets. Technology however doesn’t just refer to electronic gadgets or the internet or machines, as people nowadays tend to falsely believe. What is technology? According to the Merriam-Webster definition, ‘technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function’. People interact with interacting with various forms of technology, be it banking technology while withdrawing cash at the ATM, or educational technology while learning in high school. My daily interaction with technology is boundless. From the minute I wake up each morning to the time I go back to bed at night, technology is making my life easier and comfortable. I am able to complete tasks efficiently without time wastage. As everyone does, I use the lamps and the air conditioner in my room, the taps and showers which provide water and toiletries...
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...Part One As director of a local television station some of the primary roles we have in the delivery of news media to the public are: to inform the viewers of what is going on, explain how it may affect them, educate them on how they could help or change the situation, and at the same time, allow them to be entertained so that they keep coming back to my station to get their news. How we get our news has changed drastically over the last century. We can now access the news through television, newsprint, radio, and the internet. We can find out what is going on anywhere in the world on a 24/7 basis over the internet. Immediate news media has had a significant effect on our culture. It allows us to get the news as it happens, and become more aware and involved. The internet would be my biggest competition, and I need to keep this in mind when making decisions for the station. The station has to try and keep up with the internet whenever possible. With this being said, I am faced with the task of deciding what story should be used as the lead story during our next broadcast. Right now I have two stories that have great potential to be lead stories. I need to come up with the solution that will benefit both the television station and the viewers. The first story is about the city council voting to close city parks three days a week to save money. With this story I would like to have as many viewers tuned in as possible, because this is an issue that could affect the lives...
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...As I twist my mind thinking about the topic that has given to me. I fist thought that this topic is very easy. In connection to easy, it is very short. Now the problem comes up, how I will balance my thoughts into wording in a ten pages essay? It is hard for us to expand the issue of these laconic ideas that build my theme. On the day that this essay project introduced to us, professor said that he asked other seminarian especially the higher year, and they said that the ten pages essay is not enough for them. Yes, for them, but for us, a beginner in the turf of philosophy, it is very difficult to us to do this work and just say 'job well done'. This article of essay project will measure are transcendental ability, to go beyond our limit. Moreover, I think this is lessons that I will learn from this work. We are learning our subject and in the same time, we are exceeding our potentials and widening our mind in the society or community we belong. While I am thinking on how to set up my theme into organized details, brain storming and concept mapping pop in the lead. In addition, I found out that my topic was full of vast ideas. Thinking that my topic was so easy, yes it is so easy but full of thoughts. For me enable to swim this wide ocean of ideas, I need to configure my thoughts and get the pearl of the orient of each subject matter that are included here. The title of my essay is technology and morality. It has a two parts; first, the part one, “the effect of computer...
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...1. https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/article/internet-changed-everyday-life/?fullscreen=true a. One way that our lives are enhanced is the ability to communicate faster. We are able to get news out and about to anywhere in the world faster than we ever have before, and we can know what is going on in each other’s lives like never before. Also with the Internet, we are able to learn about almost anything that we set our minds to. We can share ideas and thoughts with other people, and have them seen by millions. b. Daily life has been altered greatly in the past decade. 10 years ago, the first thing you might do when you come home is sit down and turn on the TV. Now? You probably go online and check your emails or social media. People even check their communication device in the car or in the waiting room. Our daily life has been so drastically changed over the past decade, especially with the growth of mobile technology. c. A negative impact on society is addiction and privacy. Many people become addicted to social media that they simply can’t stay off of it. People will even base their self-esteem and worthiness on how many “followers” or “friends” they have on their favorite website. The other concern is privacy. People will post things that can make them identifiable, and cause serious problems. This is especially noticeable with minors, who, despite previous warnings, will act recklessly online, putting themselves and their friends and family in danger...
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...has increased the productivity and efficiency in today’s businesses. Business owners can reach employees and clients throughout the globe in a matter of minutes. Many businesses use communications tools such as PDAs, email, fax, video-conferencing, instant-messaging, and the internet. Business can be managed remotely by using technology. Business communication plays a big role in my day to day activities at my work place. My occupation requires me to deal with various departments within in my company and law offices throughout the United States. I must ensure my level of communication is understandable to the other parties. The most used trends of communication in my occupation are technology and teamwork. Email is the most important technology used because if allows me to communicate with other departments in written format so I can have documentation of my communication with the recipient. I personally feel email is the best way of communication because it written communication and if needed for evidence it can be provided. I use email to communicate with the other departments if documentations are needed to complete my job, to contact attorney to stop foreclosure sales, and to communicate with my manager if needed. Email is a great source of communication because it allows you to communicate with several people at one time. The only thing with email is that one must be very careful with the information provided in the email because many companies have privacy policies...
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...Me and cyber security I strongly believe that cyber security will be my profession. The reasons to say cyber security will be my profession are: First, I have a good experience of reading. Second, I am incredibly interested in cyber security profession. However, my friends believe that cyber security is going to be difficult for me. Even though my associates frustrated me that cyber security is challenging, my reading practice and interest in cyber security empowered me to attend cyber security program. I have ability of reading various reading materials that encouraged me to go for cyber security program. When I was in Jimma University, I was both student and assistant lecturer. Due to that, I used to read a lot of materials to teach my students. For example books, journals, newspapers and video lectures. In addition to that, I was also reading different resources to score good grade on my own courses. Some of these materials are textbooks of physiology, anatomy and biochemistry, online materials and different researches. To sum up, I used to read day and night to cover both my students’ and my own courses. So, my reading skill will contributes a lot to successfully accomplish cyber security program. Also, I attracted by cyber security profession. The first reason that makes me interested in cyber security discipline is its high demand. Nowadays the uses of Internet and cyber crime are growing in parallel. As a result, our world is in high demand of qualified cyber...
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...school career fair. The speech is talking about the roles as an accountant and the importance of having an accountant especially when business are involved. Introduction The definition of Accounting is basically a person that keeps track and puts in order a business’s financial records to help that business know if they are gaining or losing money so that the business may continue successfully. Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, and communicating economic information to permit informed judgments and decisions (I, 10/1/2012) The primary objectives of accounting consists of an accountant (bookkeeper) keeping track of a company’s debits and credits, without this feature for a company there would not be any way for a company to know whether or not they are gaining or losing money (Instructor, 2002-2005)! Therefore, an accountant will gather information from the company which consists of their total income that has been brought in as well as receipts for everything the company has bought to determine the debit that the company has spent. After the accountant has gathered all of this information, the accountant can than determine the company’s equity rather or not they are losing money or gaining money (Instructor, 2002-2005). There are fourteen different steps when dealing with accounting process. Fist the accountant must gather the information from the business and be able to recognize the information (Internet Center for Management and Business Administration...
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...workers are happy, then that says something about their management. 2. Have you ever seen or worked for an ineffective manager? Describe the causes and the consequences of the ineffectiveness I have personally worked with an ineffective manager. I believe the manager did not care about his work and was unhappy. With his negative attitude, this caused a ripple effect so that everyone else was also unhappy with work. Nothing got done, and if it got done, the quality of the work was very poor. 3. Describe in as much detail as possible how the internet and globalization affect your daily life. Internet plays a major role in my life. I use it for almost everything. Being in a different state as my immediate family, the internet helps me keep close tabs on them. The internet also allows me to see what is going on all around the world. Without internet, I would feel very lost and lonely. As for globalization, I feel this effects my daily life because without it, we wouldn’t have certain products from different countries that we use every day. This was especially true while I was on deployment. There were a lot of American owned business in the different countries I visited, and it made being away for such a long time a little better. 4. Identify some examples of how different organizations collaborate across boundaries. Banking is a good example of how an organization collaborates across boundaries. The company creates and advertises credit cards,...
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...Assignment front sheet | Learner name | ------------------------------------------------- Assessor name | Linn Thiri Aung | Mr. George Tun | Date issued | Completion date | Submitted on | .8.2014 | 22.12.2014 | 22.12.2014 | Qualification | Unit number and title | Edexcel BTEC Level 4 HNC Diploma in Business | Unit 4 Personal and Professional Development L/601/0943 | A | | Assignment title | Personal and Professional Development | In this assessment you will have opportunities to provide evidence against the following criteria. a Indicate the page numbers where the evidence can be found. | Criteria reference | To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the student is able to: | Task no. | Evidence | 1.1 | Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning | 3 | 4 | 1.2 | Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged | 3 | 8 | 1.3 | Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organization | 3 | 9 | 2.1 | Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational objectives | 1 | | 2.2 | Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them | 2 | | 2.3 | Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs | 2 | | 2.4 | Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs | 2 | | 3.1 | Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan | 2 | 3...
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...alienate people? „Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.” I found a whole lot of such remarkable maxims in Internet when I wrote “communication+proverb” in Google but this quote by John A. Piece really impressed me. It clearly shows that the need of communication is of a great importance in our life because we are “social animals” so we cannot exist effectively without developing specific communication skills. That’s why communicating is one of the most talked about areas of human behavior that has even evolved in our technocratic world to form the new means of communication – Internet, cell phones etc. But here arises the question, if these new technologies separate and alienate people rather than it serves to bring them together. In my opinion, as with many other issues related to technology, we cannot say that it is fully true or false, but both the perspectives can co-exist. On the minus side, the new ways of communication have some obvious disadvantages. According to a leading american sociologist, the social networks are actively “usurping” our world and isolating us from the real human interactions. For example, many opponents of Facebook and Twitter believe that modern people become alienated from each other by the increasingly dehumanizing lifestyle, in which these new means of communication have the dominant role. There are many young people addicted to this art of digital contact so they prefer it instead of real...
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...Ugboaja September 14, 2013 According to the LSI Internet LS1 1, the Life Style Inventory survey from Human Synergistics International is a “system that provides a "road map" to properly focus your personal development goals and keep you focus in the right direction. The LSI Internet LS1 measures 12 essential styles of patterns of thinking that can either aid or deter a person from achieving his/her capabilities. The 12 LSI styles are divided into three major clusters. The Constructive Styles which refers to one’s satisfaction needs includes Achievement, Self-Actualizing, Humanistic-Encouraging, and Affiliative. The Passive/Defensive Styles which refer to People Orientation behaviors which includes Avoidance, Dependent, Conventional and Approval. The last cluster is Aggressive/Defensive Styles which refers to Task Orientation behaviors, which includes Oppositional, Power, Competitive, and Perfectionistic. This paper will identify and discuss my primary & backup thinking styles, identify my limiting style that I believe may be working against me, one specific style that I would like to change and the difference it will make in my personal and professional life. My primary style (highest percentile score) is under the Constructive section which is Achievement. My “backup” (second highest percentile) is Affliative style which also under the Constructive section. According to the LSI Internet LSI 1 website, “the Achievement style measures a way of thinking...
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...In the 21st century, the world is changing and becoming increasingly complex as the flow of information increases and becomes more accessible day by day. The world is radically more different than it was just a few years ago, hard to imagine that it’s such a short period of time - the world and its people, economies and cultures have become inextricably connected, driven by the Internet, new innovations and low-cost telecommunications technology. A computer is a must, to be a successful student, in this modern age, all the required information and communication is accessible online. The education is structured for all students, regardless of background or community, so that they have the opportunity not only to reach their goals but to contribute the modern society as well, because education is not just an individual prosperity, because if you really think about it, it also serves a public good. The education acquired must ensure that everyone remains fully functional in such an increasingly demanding and knowledge-based society will require a constantly rising level of skills. The final result should be that education means more in terms of human survival and happiness. There is a huge connection - people who are better educated are more likely to be employed, have higher career satisfaction, live longer with improved health, have reduced participation in crime, participate in voting and volunteering, and are less likely to rely on public tax transfers or benefits...
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...Introduction Music has the ability to shape one mind. Throughout history it has been blatantly obvious that this favoured type entertainment have changed with the passing times. The growth of music has led to an expansion to ones freedom of expression. It has become a part of people, and who they are. Some music represents people, and other music expresses people. Either way, music is around and keeps on growing. Growing to new ideas and feelings that capture its listeners. Any man who says that music doesn`t play a major role in one’s life is deserving of pity. Every man today fits under at least one classification of music. Today, I`ll share with you on the types of instruments, music and emotion and also the role of woodwind and brass in an orchestra. Body Do you know what an orchestra is? In simple words it brings the meaning of a group of people playing instruments that are classified into woodwind and brass. Do you know how a trumpet or a saxophone looks like? Do you know in which categories are these instruments classified? Well no worries, I`ll share with you. A woodwind instrument is an instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by a vibrating with air a thin piece of wood known as a reed. Most of these instruments were originally made of wood, but some such as the saxophone and some flutes are now made of other materials. The examples of the woodwind instruments are flute, saxophone, clarinets, oboe and bassoon. Meanwhile a brass instrument...
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