...The Characteristics of a Good Boss as Opposed to a Bad Boss Stacy Giroux COM/155 February 13, 2014 Anne Cox The Characteristics of a Good Boss as Opposed to a Bad Boss In the property preservation field, having the characteristics of a good boss as opposed to a bad boss is very important to the success of the business. Property preservation is a tough field to be in for several reasons. First, the competition is high because, in this economy, there is a high demand for vendors to clean up the foreclosed properties for the banks. Second, there is a fine line between quality and quantity. This is because there are so many foreclosures that the need to get them done quickly is great, but the need to pay attention to detail is of equal value as these properties need to be in tip top condition and ready to hit the market within five days from the day a preservation company receives the first work order. Quality and quantity do not stop there. Once the house is on the market then the property preservation company is to maintain the yard weekly and the interior monthly. The maintenance list can grow very quickly, again making the line between quality and quantity a very fine line. Third, property preservation companies rely on their crews to do a majority of the work. If the crews are trained and their quality of work is up to standard, then everyone makes money, if not it can break a business. In the property preservation field, a good boss handles employee challenges...
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...Week 7 – Appendix E Comparison and Contrast Draft – Good Boss/Bad Boss Do you enjoy your job? Do you look forward to going to work every day? Does work give you a sense of accomplishment? Hopefully it does because you may not be aware but; the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) establishes that a traditional full time employee works 40 hours a week which means you spend 24% of your week at work. The National Sleep Foundation recommends an adult get seven to eight hours of sleep daily which means you spend another 24% of your time sleeping. This means we have the remaining 52% to spend with family and friends per week/year. This means that making your place of work your second home and your co-workers your extended family is very important. Now, you may have an idea why is so important to be happy at work considering we spend a quarter of our time there. I know it seems very easy but, the reality is that most of us at some point in our careers have come against a road block someone that just does not seem to get it or thinks his or her entire job is making work difficult. The managing style of a boss can have a great impact in our careers and our personal life. Although it seems a good and a bad boss do not have any similarities, they do have a few which makes even harder to understand the reason for the differences. Both a “Good Boss and a Bad Boss” have the same exact position the same roles and responsibilities and most of the time the same number of direct...
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...Chapter One Business Now: Change Is the Only Constant Review Questions 1. What factors contribute to the rapid pace of change in business? Is the pace likely to accelerate or decrease over the next decade? Why? 2. What role does entrepreneurship play in the economy? Who stands to gain from the success of individual entrepreneurs? How do other parties benefit? 3. When did American business begin to concentrate on customer needs? Why? 4. How do nonprofit organizations compare to businesses? What role do nonprofits play in the economy? How do they interact with businesses? 5. What are the factors of production? How can economies grow when one or more of the factors is weak? 6. What are the 5 dimensions of the business environment? Discuss the key elements in each area as they relate to U.S.-based businesses. |Dimension of Business Environment |Key Elements | | | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...about the making of modern motherhood, where she deeply focused on the ideologies and practices of “good” motherhood from the 1800s to the present. * Dr. O’Reilly’s main focus was to give us a lecture in the detail about how motherhood changes from agriculture to urbanization, discussing the 4 transformation stages of its cataclysmic moments. * There were multiple important points that she raised during the lecture. Dr. O’Reilly wanted us to know the transformation stages, from what position women are at back then in an agricultural economy, moving into the industrial economy, then into the 2nd world war and after. Main Topic and Argument of Reading * Rich Reading * The author is writing about the nature and meaning of motherhood, the heavy importance of being a mother and to their children, their decisions to make, their roles, duty, and the feelings they encounter as to raising their child. * Hays Reading * The author is writing about her ideas about mothering since the middle ages, and the evolution of intensive mothering, where the mother, Rachel is responsible for her only two year old child, while keeping a well-paying job having an unsympathetic boss since her boss is childless. * The author persuades the reader to believe that, being a mother is hard work, it involves numerous responsibility, and that being a good mother requires a challenge, especially when juggling full time work, obligations, pampering and...
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...as to obtain a good or service from an outside source.Outsourcing has benefited individuals, businesses, and the world for centuries, however, through its brutalized international evolution, the country could suffer. The first type of individual outsourcing that everyone has been aware of for centuries is obtaining domestic help. The world has outsourced in this way for a very long time. Everyone has done this for similar reasons as to why anything is outsources because it saves time and efficiency while wanted tasks improve. Proclaimed in U.S. News & World Report - Money on “Why You Should Outsource Domestic Chores”...
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...1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. To discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics, one must first define organizational ethics. According to Wikipedia, organizational ethics is defined as “how an organization ethically responds to an internal or external stimulus.” Personal differences and preference of people can create biases and conflict of interest since people have different likes and dislikes as well as different attitudes about culture, morals, and the way an individual carries theirself. If organizational ethics are not clearly defined within an organization, then chaos can occur. Companies need to make sure that there is a set standard of ethics and codes of conduct to assure an organization remains consistent and compliant. For example, preferences of a high-level manager on the gender of the people of whom he/she would like to work with, a specific type of educational background, or a certain income bracket of a person can lead to discrimination and prejudices against employees within that company. Personal differences of one’s culture, race, or even their appearance or characteristics should not come into play when working at a company. Diversity of an organization is vitally important and if someone is bias to a person’s personal difference, then someone can be treated unfairly or overlooked when that said person may have valuable input and resources that could help a...
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...company based off of the financials provided by the accountant in order to save money for their son’s college fund. If they are provided with financials that make the company look more profitable than it truly is because the accountant cooked the books, then this family is entering into a dangerous investment that could ruin their son’s college fund and his future education. This shows the level of responsibility and ethical decision making that accountants are faced with. As a recent graduate of Providence College with an undergraduate in Accounting, I landed a job with a small automobile company. It is midnight and my boss is looking to sell the company. He has a meeting with Warren Buffet at 9a.m. tomorrow morning and has asked me to provide a spreadsheet with the company’s sales during the past six months. The ethical dilemma that I am faced with is that my boss has also asked me to account for the 15% of products that are typically returned due to defects and other reasons in our sales even though he knows that this will overstate our sales for the past six months by 15%. I am running out of time and I need to make a decision. First I am going to...
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...RESPONSIBILITY ON THE DEVOLOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE. | SHORT ASSIGNMENT | SHAMSUL KABIR MASUMSTUDENT ID : 306340/408209 | LECTURER: STEPHEN HUMPHREY | SUBMISSION DATE: 23/09/13 | | | | John has been offered to write his assignment by one who knows that assignment area very well. John has to pay £150 for this. John is not an outstanding student, his writing is very poor and john knows very well that if he pay £150 pound then he will get good mark for that assignment, which will help him to finish his graduation. Now the question rises whether john will pay £50 pound for good result or he will submit his own written assignment. Above scenario helps us to understand the basic concept of Ethics. Ethics comes from ethos, which is a Greek word means “character” (Wikipedia). Definition of ethics can be described in many ways as ethics varies in different sector. Ethics helps us to understand the difference between right or wrong, good or bad. Ethics describe some standards of right and wrong which tells us what to do in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics also provide the opportunity to study and development of ethical standards (Velasquez, 2010). If we consider above scenario where john have two options, first option he needs to work hard and submit his own assignment, second option he should pay £50 pound and submit someone work by his own name. So it can be said that first...
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...the workforce are immigrants that has contribute one way or the other to the economy of the country. Though there are problem with the boarders which I think can be solved by other ways. The Trump method of deportation, I really don't think is a option to solve the illegal immigrants issue, my point is when we look more at the economic cost and really that boss at the labor market it, he said everyone has to go and when we look at it, if everyone has to go that will cost America 8 million workers and that a significant amount that's 5.2 per of our labor market will be affect. Deporting the immigrant is not going to cut cost rather is going to cause harm...
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...Film Analysis: The Corporation University/Institution Name: Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Course Name: Date Submitted: Film Analysis: The Corporation Introduction The Corporation, an infotainment by moviemakers Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar and authored by Joel Bakan, explores the legal standard, basically inquiring: if corporations were people, what manner of people would they be? Making use of psychiatrical main beliefs and FBI forensic technics, and through several case studies, the motion picture ascertains that this “being”, the corporation, which has an ever-increasing power over the daily existence of almost all living creatures on earth, would be a sociopath. The case studies consist of a story concerning how two reporters were sacked from Fox News for declining to downplay a story about the risks of a product of Monsanto given to dairy cattle, and another regarding Bolivian employees who confederated to guard their rights on their own water provision. The commonness of corporate control over our lives is looked into by analyzing efforts to manipulate behavior, together with that of children. The key argument of the infotainment is that, as the corporate legal “body” under current law is regarded to be a person, founded on its characteristics and personality, is a sociopath. Bakan establishes this standpoint on several things but letting the Psychologist tackle the question while the expert deals with psychosis. The major problems of a corporation discussed...
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...Taylor principle got first accepted in US and then spread to Germany, England, France and other European countries…. Russia even included it in its curriculum of education… Books: A piece rate system, Shop Management, Art of Cutting Metals, Principles of Scientific Management Background Workers themselves decided what work methods to follow and selected their own tools for each operation… Managerial and supervisory roles of today were largely absent then… Managers urged workers to use their own initiative so as to produce largest possible return to employer… Assumptions of Scientific Management 1. Improved productivity will come from application of scientific method 2. Primary focus is on work itself and not person doing work… Good worker is one who is viewed as one who accepts orders but does not initiate action… 3. Each worker is assumed to be an economic man… Interested in maximizing his monetary income...
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...Abstract The perception of the financial and the accounting field over the past decade has been very poor in the eyes of the public. Especially after many recent scandals that have more then embarrassed the industry. The overall idea behind the field of accounting is for accountants to serve the public for the greater good. Yet the public doesn’t feel that accountants can be trusted. Hence, the numerous amounts of regulations imposed by the government on the finance field. In this paper we discuss the field of finance and accounting, overall view of the public, several scandals that led to the lowly perception of the accounting profession and some of the numerous regulations imposed by the government. Are these regulations too many or too little and how do they affect the economy? Research Paper Number One The perception of the financial and the accounting field over the past decade has been very poor in the eyes of the public. Especially after the recent scandals that have more then embarrassed the industry. The overall idea behind the field of accounting is for accountants to serve the public for the greater good. Yet the public doesn’t feel that accountants can be trusted. Hence, the numerous regulations imposed by the government on the finance field. According to a recent poll done by U.S. News and World Report of the top jobs in America for the year of 2012, accountants came in at number 21 on the list out of a possible 25 different...
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...Because the employee’s pay is based on how many products they sell, they may act unethically towards the customers and other salespeople in an attempt to become the best salesperson and get top pay. Unethical acts could include lying, cheating, misrepresenting the company, and other deceptive acts. b. With the straight commission based structure, turnover may be high because employees may seek other sales jobs if they are not doing well or if the other job includes a base pay, benefits, or other incentives that the straight commission job does not offer. c. Straight commission jobs may present financial difficulties to the employee because income is so uneven. Take home pay can be high one month, but low the next month if sales is not good. Employees may eventually get tired of the ups and downs in pay and may not seek long term employment with the company. II. Most sales representatives will choose either to sell at the top of the bottom of the price range. a. The following are reasons a sales representative might sell at the top of the range: 1. To obtain the highest commission and take home pay as possible. 2. To differentiate their product as premier or top of the line. 3. To be the top sales person. b. The following are reasons a sales representative might sell at the bottom of the range: 1. To offer low price products that would encourage consumers to purchase more items. 2. To differentiate the...
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...CARDIFF MET SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Case Study Brief BLC6004 International Business and Cultural Diversity Case Study (Year 2013-2014) THIS CASE STUDY COUNTS 50% TOWARDS YOUR GRADE FOR THIS MODULE. Based on the attached case, “Organizational and National Cultures in a Polish-U.S. Joint Venture”, write an analytical paper that addresses the following questions (2000 Words). Note: The format of the paper is to be as follows: Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), One-inch margins on all sides. Appropriate referencing is expected. Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response. CASE. Organizational and National Cultures in a Polish-U.S. Joint Venture This case looks at differences in the cultural values and beliefs of Polish and U.S. managers comes from data collected from interviews with Polish and expatriate U.S. managers. Background The U.S./Polish Company The company was a joint venture with a Polish partner and a wholly owned subsidiary of a U.S. multinational corporation located in Poland. The U.S. company started operations in Poland in 1990. The joint venture started two years later. The joint venture was a small, non-bureaucratic organization with 140 employees. Everybody knew each other and a family type of relationship existed among the managers. Both local Polish managers and U.S expatriates reported a friendly work climate even though all top managerial positions were held by the...
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...DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, AURANGABAD. 2011-2012 PROJECT REPORT on “FDI in indian retail sector” Submitted By Mr. Sagar P. Mahalkar Mr.Sachin Shinde Mr. Shrikant Gaikwad Mr.Akshay Shisode Guided By Prof. Ramesh Sardar DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, AURANGABAD. 2011-2012 “CERTIFICATE” This is to certify that the project report entitled ”FDI IN INDIAN RETAIL SECTOR” is the confide work of the candidate satisfactorily completed during the academic year 2011-2012 as the partial fulfillment of requirement for the M.B.A.(F.Y.) in the Department of Management Science. Submitted by Mr. Sagar P. Mahalkar Mr. Shrikant Gaikwad Guided by DIRECTOR Prof. Ramesh Sardar Prof. Abhijeet Shelke Acknowledgement We would specially like to thank to the people who directed, encouraged, and advised us for the whole project. This is a real project we are getting something new information about various problems of FDI in retail sector in India. This project clarifying our views about FDI what we thought and problems of FDI in retail sector in India what actually is. We are very thankful to my guider that, he given us his valuable time and advised us time to...
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