...1. Which of Fayol’s 14 universal principles of management in Table 2.1 are evident in the C.F. Martin case? Explain your reasoning for each principle selected. Principles of management that are evident in C.F. Martin case are: • Unity of Command – Chris found a very hierarchical situation where the boss tells the workers and the workers does it and goes home. • Initiative – Chris Martin took the initiative of formulating and carrying out a plan to improve the company by taking a course and learning the value of teamwork. He was able to get the workers involved which resulted in $15 million in profit sharing for the employees. • Stability and Tenure of Personnel – Chris involved the workers in a lot of formal training to learn their job. • Remuneration – In the process of training employees on the job, the company was able to profit $15 million in shares. • Esprit de corps – Chris was able to prove that teamwork is successful. The workers took what was learned from the trainings, worked as a team and the company was a success resulting in $15 million in profit sharing. 2. What would Mary Parker Follett probably say about Chris Martin’s management style? Explain. I think Mary Parker Follett would say job well done to Chris Martin’s management styles. She would also say to keep up the good work. He was able to motivate his employee’s performance through training and getting them to work harder instead of demanding it out of them. This is a style that Mary Parker Follett...
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...school regulation will have a huge impact on their lives. To sufficiently influence policy makers, these parents need to be educated on the issues and involved in advocating for the new regulation. Their involvement will give ABC’s advocacy work the necessary visible support of young families. However, few young parents participate in ABC’s advocacy programs, preferring to join XYZ for their relevant information and support groups or LMN for their help in addressing problems in the school system. ABC recognizes that young parents have a limited amount of free time and wants to make it easy for them to participate in its advocacy efforts. In addition, ABC needs to be a good steward of its resources and not compete for clients with other organizations that are providing excellent complementary services. Purpose of the alliance The purpose of this alliance is to • Share information about the proposed school regulation • Recruit young parents into the project • Provide training to young parents so that they can assist in revising the proposed school regulation • Defray the costs of parent involvement in the project Outcomes An alliance of ABC, XYZ, and LMN (and perhaps other partners) will directly impact people with disabilities and their families and make a difference in their lives for years to come. The involvement of informed, concerned constituents will influence policy makers and help to make needed revisions in the proposed school regulation. The first steps Before...
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...the candles. The Holland House Candles Inc. is the company making these elaborate candles. Each candle has to be done in 15 minutes or the wax will be come to cool to carve. Once started, the artist will quickly and efficiently make a beautiful decorative candle. At the beginning of the process the candle maker starts by dipping the wax base into the hot wax. Each time the candle maker dips the base into the wax they have to then dip it in water to seal the color of wax and ensure that the candle is staying the temperature needed to finish and sculpt the candle. Once the candle is finished with the wax, the candle maker then cuts off the base and sculpts a mushroom candle out of it, so there is no waste. The candle maker then starts sculpting the candle. Once this process starts the candle maker only has 15 minutes before the candle becomes to cool to sculpt. She uses the cookie cutter like tool to dig out some of the middle to ensure the candle burns down the middle and not over the edges ruining the design. Then, the candle maker uses a hot pan to melt the bottom of the candle to make an even bottom to apply the company sticker. Once this step is completed the candle maker then dips the candle into an acrylic glaze to seal everything and to give it a shiny look while burning. It is then set up to finish drying before being ready to sell. Waste created from the base of the candle is sculpted into a mushroom shaped smaller candle. The direct materials used in this process are...
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...1. What is the major problem or opportunity facing Dave? The major problem that Dave is facing is the low morale of his team. From that issue, other issues have grown over time. The team does not work well together like it used to, the team has stopped caring for their trucks, and each member of the team has been vying for the new truck. Dave is also afraid of losing one of his team members because they would be hard to replace. 2. What are the courses of action available to the decision maker? Describe the possible impact of each action on the team members, the company, and Dave. Dave, the decision maker, can make an effort to increase the morale of his team through bonding programs or something similar. He also needs to select a better way to decide who gets the new truck. The first new truck went to a junior employee whose truck was not very old. This was the cause of the decrease in morale, which is likely because the senior employees whose trucks are older did not feel appreciated. Dave could give the second new truck to the member with the most seniority and the oldest truck, which would be George, but that may cause some issues still; other team members may feel like they are worth less than the others. Dave could randomly select who gets the truck by doing a drawing of some sort, but that may leave a feeling of unfairness amongst the team members. Dave could also make it a competition of some sort, but that will likely increase the tension between the team members...
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...the individuals are at the very basic level are motivated to participate in a monetary transaction or other trades for the sake of making a living. Making a living or a good living is basically a motive to acquire and maintain the basic needs in life such as shelter, food, clothes among other luxuries along the way such as comfortable couch, or a cozy blanket and etc. To acquire a living at first, an individual is motivated to conduct himself in a marketplace and offer a product or service in return for a monetary value or factor that will help him/her attain a good living. Not necessarily does the maker or seller of the product creates and sells the product out of a good heart – he may, he may not – but to gain something else in return for him. The buyer may not necessarily buy the product just because it is just a good product, but also that it solves their need or want and the maker is trying to earn a living like everybody else. There is a chain to it – just like a food chain – it is a chain. John buys the raw material from Doyle to finish making a beverage that in return will be bought by customers, by more Doyles. Those customers are a provider (seller) of another product or service to another buyer who are their customers. Again, a cleaner doesn’t offer to clean your house just because they want to be nice, but at the same time to earn something...
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...Yamaha Guitar Company Yamaha Company is a Japanese multinational company and conglomerate located in Japan, which provides a range of services and products, electronics, motorcycles, predominantly musical instruments and power sports instruments. Yamaha Company was introduced in year 1887 with reed organ and piano manufactured by the Torakusu Yamaha as the Nippon Gakki Limited. This was a literally a Japan musical manufacturing company in Hamamatsu, and was later incorporated 1897. The company originated as musical instrument manufacturer and still reflected in the currents group’s logo. After the Second World War, the corporation president, Genichi Kawakami, repurposed the remains of company’s war period, the production machinery and the corporation’s expertise in the metallurgical technologies to manufacture of motorcycles (Davis, 56). YA-1, of which almost 125 motorcycles, were created within the initial year of production, 1954, and was named in the honor of the founder. The motorcycle was a 125cc, two-stroke, single cylinder, street bike that was patterned after German DKWRT125. The model was copied by the British munitions firms in post war era, and it was manufactured as Bantam and the Hummer was Harley-Davidson. In the year 1995, the success of YA-1 resulted in foundation of the Yamaha Motor Company Limited (Davis, 56). Currently, the Yamaha Company has grown tremendously, and has become the world greatest manufacture of the musical instruments that...
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...played transcriptions for guitar. After Segovia received recognition inside and outside his own country by 1919, Segovia was ready for a world tour. In that year Segovia performed in South America. There he gained an enthusiastic response. At this time some people considered him as a curiosity, a man trying to find his path. His most important early success occurred at his Paris debut in April 1924. They loved him immediately. His reputation became international. Andres Segovia was born on February 21, 1893 in the Andalusian city of Linares, Spain. His father was a prosperous lawyer and hoped that one day that his son would join him in his work. Andres’ father, trying to build a wide cultural background for his son, began to provide Andres with musical instruction at an early age. He taught him how to play the piano and the violin, but Andres did not seem to be too enthusiastic about either instrument. When Andres was open to the vocals of a guitar being played his interest in music itself had begun. Even though his parents disapproved of him playing the guitar, Andres still continued to play the instrument. Andres applied his musical knowledge of piano and violin to his study of the guitar. Because of this, Andres developed his own technique; he had discovered quite early that certain piano exercises were beneficial in strengthening the fingers for the guitar. He believed that the guitars rightful place was in a concert stage, but at this time the guitar was considered unsuitable...
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...character Mike thinks and feels. Its mikes views we have presented and it’s his emotions and thoughts are passed. Therefore, is the narrator limited, in that sense that he doesn’t know what his wife and children’s thoughts and feelings are. As a reader, we get a personal perspective by Mike’s point of view, since we see everything from his side. Therefore, are we also more likely to have sympathy with him, as we see how his kids treat him as an ungrateful father, rather it’s also because we don’t know their side of the story. From Mike’s point of view, the family seems unreasonable and greedy with the comments and requirements the family express them with, in relation to the guitar. “You promised Billy a guitar (…), so now you have to deliver”. Mike sees himself as the "delivery man" or the “money-maker”, because he feels that he gives and gives but gets nothing in return. He feels the world is evil and unjust. He feels that he is the victim in the house now, as the family is using him. He expresses himself by saying - “Just call me the delivery man”! The protagonist in the main character is mike. He is 45 years old father with two children and a wife. They live in a big house outside the bustling city of London. Mike works in the financial world, which means that he barely sees his family often. Mike works very much and rarely less than 12 hours a day, which means that he is rarely home. He...
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...Test An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses. The most common guitar pickup uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker. Since the output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, the signal may easily be altered using electronic circuits to add "color" to the sound. Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion. Invented in 1931, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound in the big band format. During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.[1] It has evolved into a stringed musical instrument that is capable of a multitude of sounds and styles. It served as a major component in the development of rock and roll and many other genres of music. ------------------------------------------------- History Various experiments at electrically amplifying the vibrations of a string instrument date back to the early part of the twentieth century. Patents from the 1910s show telephone transmitters adapted and placed inside violins and banjos to amplify the sound. Hobbyists in the 1920s used carbon button microphones attached to the bridge, however these detected vibration from the bridge on top of the instrument, resulting in a weak signal.[2] With...
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...The Influence of the Electric Guitar on The Evolution of Music In the history of civilization, music has had a profound impact on cultural development. Over the course of human history, human creativity has produced a plethora of different instruments and musical styles. But amidst the vast expanse of musical expression, the guitar has emerged as a versatile instrument that has revolutionized music. Although its definite origins are uncertain, the first six-string guitar is said to have originated during the 1700s (Heck). Structurally influenced by the lute, the first guitar was rudimentary compared to what would follow. As is the case with any development, the invention of the modern day electric guitar took time. In the 19th century, steel...
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...Zia Mohiuddin Dagar or Z.M. Dagar, was a renowned Hindustani classical musician, famous for being a master of the rudra veena, a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani classical music, and essentially reviving it as a solo concert instrument. Z.M. Dagar is well known in the Hindustani music world for modifying and redesigning the rudra veena by incorporating effective components in the instrument. As a result of his modifications, the rudra veena produced a soft and deep sound when plucked, vastly improving the overall quality of the Hindustani classical music instrument. Dagar was born in the town of Udaipur, Rajasthan in 1929. As a child, he began his studies in music with his father, Ustad Ziauddin Khan Dagar, a court musician for the Maharaja of Udaipur. Z.M. Dagar received training in both vocals and in the rudra veena. Interestingly enough, the rudra veena, an instrument designed to be used by vocalists to practice melodies, was traditionally not played in public. However, a young Dagar adopted the rudra veena as his primary instrument and even delivered his first recital at the age of 16. Dagar’s father discouraged his son from experimenting with the structure of the rudra vina however, after his father passed away, Dagar transformed the instrument to better equip it for solo performances by modifying it into a large bass instrument (often referred to as a “Dagar vina”) and various other tweaks such as enlarging the “tumbas” or gourds and the “dhandhi”...
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...History: Bowl harps was the first string guitar that came before the modern guitar (mid 1900s). The history of guitar can be from back in times 4,000 years ago. The guitar's history goes back to 15th century Malaga in Spain. It was develop by a Spanish black man, who gave just four strings to the guitar he made. Thereafter, the instrument went through the Baroque and Classical periods before evolving into the six-stringed, modern-day guitar. The word guitar comes from the Portuguese word 'guitarra' came from the Greek word 'kitharra' that refers to the Greek island of love and poetry. The guitar does have an advantage over its predecessors, the electronic guitars. Construction: Guitar Body: The body of an acoustic guitar is comprised of two main parts: The front, or soundboard, and the back and sides. Acoustic guitar soundboards are usually made of spruce or cedar. The soundboard may be solid or laminated. The back and sides are made out of a variety of materials, including mahogany, rosewood or, in some cases, synthetic composites. Guitar Necks: Guitar necks are made from a variety of materials, including the following woods bubinga, maple and mahogany. Sometimes the necks are made of graphite, aluminum or carbon fiber. Fret boards: Fret boards can be made of a number of woods. The most common are rosewood, maple or ebony. In some cases, they are made of carbon fiber or synthetic composite materials. Frets: Frets are the rounded metal strips in the fret board that determine...
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...want to end up as the center piece of someone’s Thanksgiving dinner table. I have a plan of where I will hide this Thanksgiving season. If I, the turkey, get caught, I will be slaughtered in a heartbeat. To solve that problem, I will have to disguise myself. First, I will go to New York City. It is pretty crowded there, so I don’t think I’ll be spotted. That also means that there are a lot of turkey-hungry people. I will disguise myself as a news reporter. I’ll get my turkey friend to hold the camera and I will have a microphone. Next, I will go to Mexico. I will get my talented makeup artist to make me a mask. I will then go to a Mexican restaurant. I’ll have my own mariachi band playing songs with me. I’ll have my best sombrero and a guitar in my hand. My final stop will be Honolulu, Hawaii. To get there, I will dress up as a business man and ride in 1st class on the airplane. I will have cool shades and a suit and tie. When I arrive in Honolulu, I will go into a public restroom and change into my hula girl outfit. I will go around with a grass skirt, lei, and a wig on. My plan for this Thanksgiving will hopefully work. I think I won’t get caught. Looking ahead, I need to make plans for Christmas. I am nervous that my real identity will be discovered, but I have confidence in myself. In my great turkey escape, I will go to New York City, Mexico, and...
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...us by the Revolution age with some in their original form and prevalent. Men from all different classes, from slaves and indentured servants to Thomas Jefferson, played fiddles or violins. While prices varied from high to low violins were usually imported in great numbers. In addition to popular instruments such as the violin, the flute happens to be another prominent instrument that was driven by man. 1 Woman had limited musical options due to high levels of “maintaining reputation” for men. Wealthy woman mostly played harpsichords which they played for friends and family. Another first choice instrument for woman was a English guitar, a 10 string, tear-drop shaped, C chord which is now extinct. The Baroque guitar was also in style, which represents the small version of a classical guitar with gut strings, which also has 10 strings. The 6 strand guitar didn’t evolve until the 1820’s...
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...Oh Mary don't you cry any more (4 hours) by Fay Weldon The novella/story takes place in Hobart, the biggest city and also the Capital of Tasmania which is a part of Australia. The year when the story takes place is in the middle 1980s. They live in the greatest city in Tasmania, so there must certainly live a lot of different people to socialize with. In the beginning we hear about the girls doesn’t have any footwear on their feet and that is not due anything financial, but because their “ancestors” - those before them made it fine without. All around the social background must be all right. They live in a good town with a lot of people, they have many friends and has a lot of support from family and the community/neighbors. The adults around them are also a positive influence of how to behave and how life should be lived. The mother – Shirley, is a very positive/optimistic person, she sees everything on the bright side. She has 2 daughters with her former husband “they are separated” who is an engineer. Shirley does everything for her kids with a mother’s love, she only wants the best for them. Shirley’s girl – Gracie, she’s kind of a wonder-child and by saying that when comparing to Lisa, that on the other hand really works hard with homework, doing the piano and trying to win her mothers attention, then Gracie is just a slacker born with talent. Lisa and Gracie they are sisters and as sisters they have sort of a competition minded relationship, take for an example when...
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