...“The Arts have little to do with knowledge”. Discuss this assertion with detailed reference to two works of arts in different genres. Knowledge is something at our circumference at all times. We pursue and obtain it in the various stages of our lives. As children we acquire knowledge from our parents, in school, by reading books, going on the Internet etc. As a matter of fact, Knowledge is thrown at us everyday, everywhere and from every angle, without us even knowing about it. Most people know that Math and Science give us knowledge known as Accepted truth and experimental knowledge. But can we acquire unforeseen knowledge from pieces of art such as Paintings, Music and Poems? Does art truly give us knowledge or is it the artist’s intention to play with us and influence us by making us think that we have learnt something? When thinking of it, we as viewers of the pieces of art are confused because we cannot record anything we have ever learnt from them. To most people Art is just there to impress us and for us to admire it. Never would we think that the Art’s actually give us some sort of knowledge. Nevertheless, the reason for this might be because we have the wrong definition of knowledge and are therefore not looking for the correct kind. Essentially, there are two types of knowledge that can be found in pieces of Art: Explicit and Tacit (Implicit) knowledge. Explicit knowledge is the average Joe’s definition of knowledge. It is the knowledge that we acquire everywhere, whether...
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...what is the pros and cons of group work assignment? What does group work means? Based on my search on the internet, Wikipedia.org it shows me that group work brings the meaning a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved. In supporting the effectiveness of a group approach to learning, Gatfield (1999) cites an empirical study conducted by Sorbral (1997) in one higher education setting which demonstrated that the students working in groups achieved a higher grade point average than those working in a control situation involving individual students If this point is viewed from students the temporary goal could be finishing assignments properly in a given time. Based on my view, group work assignment brings more benefits than disadvantages for university students. But despite its benefits, group work can be one of the most stressful, and emotionally exhausting part of a student’s life. According to Burns and Sinfield. “Many students see only problems associated with working in a group. Perhaps because they never get heard in the group, perhaps because they usually do all the work-whatever the problem, group work makes them unhappy.” One of the advantages of doing a group work assignment is that knowledge can be shared among students. By sharing knowledge, one student can generate or gain more ideas compared to students who works alone to complete certain assignments. To obtain knowledge by sharing, a proper group discussion...
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...study of a job (not the person in the job). It provides information for job descriptions. In doing the analysis, you will need to gather information about the job, eg by interviewing employees, observing performance of certain tasks, asking employees to fill out questionnaires and worksheets, and collecting information about a job from other sources such as related units of competency. Whatever sources you use to get basic information on what the job entails, the analysis should end up with written results that can be reviewed by the incumbent, or other employees who know the job. During the review, duties, competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics of the job can be added, deleted or modified. Job analysis is designed to provide a reliable method of quickly and effectively identifying critical competencies (ie knowledge, skills and abilities) and establishing the qualifications for a job or role. The step-by-step process below will assist you to complete a job analysis using the template provided. |Process |Explanation | |Step 1. Understand the job |Start by developing a complete understanding of the position. This is the foundation on which training (and | |including duties and tasks |other human resources processes) is based. The basis of a job is the performance of specific duties and tasks. | | ...
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...Handler Kara L. Ribar BUS303 Joy Harris 2 Jun 2014 We are all looking for a job, some of us are looking for that job that we can work hard and bring us to greatness. A supply or material handler is a job of strength, will to work, and the will to learn how to please the customer’s demands. Being able to move property from the warehouse to the truck in a timely manner to ensure the customer get what they need is the priority of ever Distribution Company. Carolyn Youssef stated in out text that “a job description identifies characteristics of the job to be performed in terms of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be fulfilled. Job descriptions serve as a standard or a benchmark for many HR matters such as compensation, performance evaluations, training needs assessments, and promotions” (Youssef, C. 2012, p.17). Today’s job market is looking for the well skilled and educated person to work for them, to ensure the loyalty of the person is with the company, and willing to learn more about the company and move with the company as changes come over the years. The job description that I have chosen to write about in this paper is the Warehouse Material Handler. In the Air Force and in the Civilian world have a need for Material Handlers. I will include the tasks, tools and technology, knowledge, skills and abilities, and educational requirements. Last, I will describe the selection methods that will be used to hire an employee. The tasks for this...
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...hours to undergo and pursue this training that will help us to acquire knowledge and skills that will serve as a tool to face the challenges of life in the future. It will set our mind of what does a real world of industrial is all about. Others think that industrial matters only on encoding or interviewing applicants which is true; however, it also matters or related in decision making. It also related to the development of our skills in communication, teamwork, enhance knowledge and management. Thus, experience is vital to one’s improvement and preparing students to their career is the best way to set them on success. Pierre and Paul is my first company to work with but unfortunately, I didn’t want the nature of the work so I decide to look for another company that will give me an opportunity to learn more and it was related on my course. My concern classmate informed me that National Bookstore Inc. is looking for Interns so I grab it. I started my OJT on July 29, 2013 at National Bookstore Inc. I really amazed and glad because we all know that National Bookstore Inc. is a well known company in our company. I was assigned at the HR Department because the Assistant HR Manager their said that they need OJT’s on their department. I accept it because I wanted to assign there. At first, It was hard to understand what I was going to do maybe because I still don’t know the process or the flow of my work and that I am pressured because I didn’t know those people on my surrounding...
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...Manage personal work priorities The assessment task is due on the date specified by your assessor. Any variations to this arrangement must be approved in writing by your assessor. Submit this document with any required evidence attached. See specifications below for details. Performance objective The candidate will demonstrate the ability to establish personal work goals. The candidate will also demonstrate the ability to set and meet work priorities. Assessment description Using a position description, you will set work goals and prioritise work goals. You will then develop two work plans to achieve two work goals. You are required to keep a journal containing your reflections on and explanation of the process of managing work priorities. Procedure 1. Review your job description and your organisation’s business plans, business goals, policies and procedures. 2. Based on your job description (and following your organisations business plans, goals, and applicable policies and procedures), establish 4-5 personal and team goals. In your journal, describe how your personal and team goals reflect your job description, the function of the team, and any organisational requirements. 3. Develop KPIs to measure performance related to work goals. In your journal, describe: * How the KPIs will be used to measure goal-related performance. * How you will maintain performance under varying conditions and contingencies. Give specific examples. *...
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...which is cross-cultural teams, virtual teams, and X-teams. Before working with our team rainbow, my previous experience could not support my knowledge and skills to working well in these three types team. 1. Do not know how to control the conflict in the team-building. Generally speaking, the conflict will be occurred in the whole team operation process, especially the team-building run-in period. The team member need to through conversation, working, meeting to be more familiar. In the run-in period, my opinion might be not attention for the cooperation, and some member might be provided drastic discussion to let me felt bad when working in the team. Furthermore, the conflict will block my enthusiasm to contribute more creativity ideas when we were brainstorming. 2. Always need leader leading and follow the leader. In my past team experience, we always need to select the leader for the team. The leader will control all the schedule, resource, activity for the team, and I always waiting the leader to assign the work for me. In addition, the leader will control and make the final decision for the decision. According to my previous team experience, my main concern about the team cooperation is how to deal the team internal conflict. Journey through the ‘leading teams’ class This course provides me much more useful knowledge and experience on the cross-cultural teams, virtual teams, and X-teams. For the X-teams, it practices extreme execution inside the team...
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...Employee Motivational Action Plan Building a well balanced team that understands their goals within an organization, and implements them is both challenging, and critical. To be successful, the team must know the expectations, and they must have the tools to complete each task. It is the responsibility of management to ensure that each team member understands his or her role and has the confidence to navigate any issues that arise. After reviewing the data collections from the individual yearly performance reviews, it is apparent that each person should be approached differently, in regard to motivation, and emotional techniques. The motivational strategy or strategies to be determined that would be most appropriate for each of these three employees based on their individual characteristics (Robbins & Judge, 2011). These people not only react differently to any given situation but also start at different points as well. According to University of Phoenix Apollo Group Riordan Manufacturing (2011), promotional reviews analyzes the three employees evaluated here appear to be positive fixtures in the organization. Riordan Manufacturing Performance Review Overview Riordan Manufacturing does yearly Performance Reviews. Three employees were evaluated and recommendations for improvement were made. According to University of Phoenix Apollo Group Riordan Manufacturing (2011), first employee is Mary Tran her Job Title is web support specialist in the IT Department, her Reviewer...
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...THE FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MARCH 2013 APPROVED BY MR. SSERWANGA EMMANUEL ES11B05/605 DECLARATION I Odoi Abraham Ochieng declare that this report is my original work and has not been submitted to any college, university or institution for any academic award. Sign……………………… Odoi Abraham Ochieng Date……………………… i ES11B05/605 APPROVAL I, the supervisor, have approved this report. It meets the Faculty’s requirement for the award of a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Uganda Christian University. Signed:........................................... Sserwanga Emmanuel Date:…………………………………….. ii ES11B05/605 DEDICATION To my Lord and Savior who continually sustains me. To my family the foundation of my well-being. iii ES11B05/605 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I take great delight in acknowledging the invaluable assistance rendered to me by all parties that contributed to my successful internship program. Many thanks go to the Division Treasurer MCD Mr. Sserwanga Emmanuel, as well as, Mr. Kyambade Ronald, who invested a great deal of time to share his knowledge and experience in Local Governance and made my training with MCD worthwhile. I further extend my appreciation to my colleagues at MCD, including Ben James Wanyina, Kaziba Nelson and Nabirye Viola for their co-operation and guidance in many areas of interest. Special thanks go to...
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...specified work instead of doing by one single individual. With the help of teamwork, every team member has an appointed goal to focus on in order to increase the efficiency of whole work. The movie October Sky , which is directed by Joe Johnston, shows the teamwork of 4 high school students who become inspired to learn how to build rockets and get success in the National Science Fair. The main character Homer dreams of launching a rocket ,which obeys his father's wish as being a miner in a mining town called Coalwood. His high school teacher Miss Riley encourages Homer to follow his heart and do his best to finish his yearning rocket. At the end, Homer and his team win the prize and get college scholarships. In the real life, teamwork is also important to be applied to solve many problems. A few years ago, my friends and I worked on a group project about photosynthesis. We were required to research how photosynthesis worked and made data report. So 2 team members worked on recording the data, and another team member and I worked on finding the theory of photosynthesis from books and internet. Because of appropriate arrangement of every member's work, we finished the project very quickly. In conclusion, teamwork is necessary to people's daily lives. There are three benefits of teamwork: teamwork can make the work much more easily to do., teamwork encourages people in many ways, and teamwork improves people's abilities. First of all, teamwork can make the work much more...
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...the factors associated are added on. The Aura’s Job Evaluation Policy Grade | Work Defined | 1 | Tasks of a simple nature and more physically demanding; the work is closely supervised by higher level employees. | 2 | Tasks are simple & are carried out in accordance with a definite number of clearly defined rules, and which can be clearly executed after a period of 2 weeks. The work is checked and closely supervised. | 3 | The tasks are straight forward, but they involve complicated routines & requiring some advanced knowledge & speciality. It requires complete alertness on the part of the worker, as the job is subjected to occasional checks from higher authorities. | 4 | The tasks for this grade call for independent arrangement of work, the exercise of some initiative, authority over the lower grades and which require little supervision. The perfect grade for communicating between the upper grades & lower grades, and is essentially the link of the organisations’ lower & upper grades. The person needs to have detailed familiarity with one or more branches of established SOP’s. | 5 | The tasks for this grade are routine, but the tasks involve a greater degree of risk & responsibility, including the readiness to answer non-routine queries & exercising some measure of control & authority over 4 grades of employees. | 6 | The tasks include non-routine work of the highest significance in running the basic structure and framework of the...
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...entrepreneurship April 2015 Agency supervisor NAME…………………………….. SIGNATURE…………………….. DECLARATION I kemihingiro Bonita declare that this internship report is my original work and has never been submitted to any institution for any award of a Bachelors’ Degree in Project planning and entrepreneurship Signed …………………………. Date ………………………… APPROVAL This is to certify that this internship report by kemihingiro Bonita has been carried out at mukono district local government He has been under my supervision and the internship report is now ready for submission to the faculty of Business studies at Uganda Christian University. Name ……………………………… Signature …………………………… Date……………………………. DEDICATION I dedicate this piece of work to my grandfathers, Brothers, Sisters and Friends for the continued support and encouragement both financially and academically throughout my course of study. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Like any other report, is not well presented by the name of a single author, rather its contents reflect the contribution from various sources without anyone of which the report would certainly have been much more difficult and of a lesser quality. I thank the Almighty God for making it possible for me to accomplish this internship report. Special thanks for the knowledge, wisdom, courage and determination God granted me. I extend my sincere appreciation to my guardians who supported me financially throughout the course of study. I also extend my gratitude...
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...4/15/2016 4/15/2016 Alexandra Saunders MAO 203 Alexandra Saunders MAO 203 Multitasking Skills and knowledge Multitasking Skills and knowledge Alex Saunders MOA 203 April 15, 2016 Multitasking Have you ever heard of multitasking and what it is? Well today we will look at the positive and the negative side of it. Multitasking means ability to complete more than one task at the time with the best ability you can. An average person multitasks every day without even knowing. I am sure that as you are reading this paper you have some apps or tabs open on your computer or even possibly have a phone next to you that just can’t stop buzzing, that is an example of multitasking with everyday tasks and challenges that come our way. Did you know that many professions use multitasking and able to handle it with extremely important documents. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, ”You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain”. (Bradberry, 2014) No worries, practice makes it perfect, at least that’s what we were thought since young age. Most research on multitasking tell us that is ineffective. Often switching between two tasks divides our focus and depletes our mental resources quicker. This leads to a greater risk of making a mistake and less quality work overall. Multitasking is especially ineffective if we are juggling between tasks that use up very similar resources in our...
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...departmental memos, receipts from the last conference she attended, a decade's worth of professional journals...well, you get the idea. The place is a monument to the paper products industry. Now, given that Allison does her clinical work in the operating room and doesn't see patients in her office, you might think that the mess is without consequence. After all, it only affects her, not the surgeons or the patients. Moreover, it only interferes with the administrative aspects of her job, not critical patient care issues. But you'd be wrong. Allison's hospital is also a teaching hospital, which means that she's expected to write grants to bring in funds for academic research and she's supposed to publish her findings. Want to guess how many A papers Allison has published in the past two years? Zero. She justifies her lack of academic productivity by explaining that her clinical responsibilities are so onerous that she has no time to find available grants and apply for them. To be fair, she does work a long day and she doesn't get as much academic time as she'd like. But when you watch her for a while, you see that's not the whole story. Paper shuffling It turns out that on days Allison works in her office, she's awfully busy. She spends time moving paper from the left side of the desk to the right side. She spends time looking for articles and print-outs. She spends time looking for...
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...(BSBWOR501) MANAGE PERSONAL WORK PRIORITIES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT (Please print your name) ____________________________________ (BSB50215) DIPLOMA OF BUSINES ------------------------------------------------- ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET CANDIDATES - Please submit this entire document (do not separate or remove pages) – with this page completed as required – and place at the top of your assessment document CANDIDATE TO COMPLETE THE SECTION BELOW | Name | | Address | | Phone | Daytime | | Evening/Mobile | | Email address | | Company name | | Training date(s) | | Training location | | Trainer’s name | | Assessment due date | | Date submitted | | Submission Date | | Resubmit 1 | | Resubmit 2 | | Purpose of the assessment The purpose of this assessment task is to assess evidence for part of a unit/s of competency which in full will lead towards a nationally-accredited qualification I acknowledge the following (all boxes need to be ticked) ❏ The assessment process has been explained to me ❏ I am ready to commence the assessment process. I have been advised of the assessment requirements, my rights and responsibilities as an assessment candidate, and I choose to be assessed at this time ❏ I understand which unit/s to complete, evidence I need to provide, and how to complete this document ❏ I understand...
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