...Competent | (3) Competent | (4) Highly Competent | The candidate does not provide a logical comparison of each company’s culture before the merger to the 4 types of organizational culture, using the Competing Values Framework. | The candidate provides a logical comparison, with no detail, of each company’s culture before the merger to the 4 types of organizational culture, using the Competing Values Framework. | The candidate provides a logical comparison, with limited detail, of each company’s culture before the merger to the 4 types of organizational culture, using the Competing Values Framework. | The candidate provides a logical comparison, with adequate detail, of each company’s culture before the merger to the 4 types of organizational culture, using the Competing Values Framework. | The candidate provides a logical comparison, with substantial detail, of each company’s culture before the merger to the 4 types of organizational culture, using the Competing Values Framework. | There are two components that should be included in your response to this prompt. First, you should categorize the symphony and the opera into one of the four cultures represented in the competing values framework (i.e. adhocracy, clan, market, hierarchy) and you should provide support from the case study why each belongs in that category. Second, you should compare the symphony and the opera with each of the other three cultures to make for a more comprehensive...
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...Chairman of the Board for the Utah Opera. He is part of the committee that originally discussed the merger. He expressed concerns about the different business models of the two different companies. The Opera hires people as needed and can adjust projects and staffing as needed. The symphony is a 52 week orchestra without that flexibility. He is also concerned the Opera could lose its identity. He should utilize Adam’s Equity Theory of Motivation. This theory is a “model of motivation that explains how people strive for fairness and justice in social exchanges or give-and-take relationships. “ (Kreitner, 2009) This explains individual’s motivations through feelings of inequity of lack of justice. The employees put in their best efforts, education, skills etc. and anticipate an equitable exchange for this input. Bill can share his concerns about the Opera losing its identity. He can address the Opera’s employees as wanting to have their contributed work being individually recognized aside from the symphony. They also have a very different budget. The Opera needs to be able to allocate resources where useful and as business needs dictate. This could create more and better jobs for the employees. If the symphony gets involved with their salaried employees, less money could be available for the Opera and its projects. This also appeals to the employee’s concerns with being treated fairly. This can then create a negative output. This means “comparison in which another person receives...
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...Woman is Fickle: A Modern Comparison By Jonathon Davis Dr. Michael J. Pendowski Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama November 13th, 2010 Verdi’s “La donna è mobile,” translated into “Woman is fickle”, puts onto display many popular key musical elements of the 19th century that are still very much alive in today’s modern music. Giuseppe Verdi utilizes several trends in music of the day to create the masterpiece that we still recognize today, despite the immense time gap. The piece is written about a woman whose mind constantly changes direction and leaves her admirers constantly pursuing in vain. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian world class composer of operas during the height of the Romantic period. This piece is widely considered his most notable work, but considering all of his great operas still performed to this day, to place anything as his “most notable” would be an understatement. His career took off with Nabucco, which he wrote after the death of his children and wife, and was able to write masterpiece after masterpiece, even into his twilight years. Verdi died with twenty-eight operas on his resume, many of which are still performed today. Most of Verdi’s inspiration came from the works of Shakespeare, with the opera Macbeth as an example. Verdi also incorporated political messages into his operas, as Italy was leaving Austrian Hapsburg rule at the time. A chorus of Nabucco is still considered an Italian patriotic theme. The opera that this piece is from...
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...JFT2 Task 1 Bill Bailey When presented with the idea of a merger between the Salt Lake Symphony and the Opera, Bill Bailey and the opera trustees expressed concerns about the financial standing of the two organizations with the opera being financially stable and could be flexible in size, number of performances offered, number of full time staff and fundraising events. On the other hand the symphony, a 52 week orchestra employing 33 full time staff and 83 musicians which along with a loss in funding left the symphony facing some financial challenges. It appeared to Bill Bailey that the symphony would be gaining much more from the merger than the opera and the only apparent benefit for the opera would be to become a tier-one arts organization but at the risk of losing its established identity. Bill could use Adam’s Equity Theory of Motivation to represent how this merger will not benefit the opera or its board and possibly hurt future operations. Adam’s Equity Theory of Motivation is one based on fairness and justice and the consequences of events that cause feelings of inequity or injustice. There are two components to this theory. First is the input, meaning what an employee provides for which a just return is expected for the efforts. Second is the output, meaning pay, bonuses, benefits and job security. Because people’s personalities vary each individual or group will evaluate events as either a positive or negative inequity when comparing outcomes with other involved...
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...Create a document to help Anne Ewers think through issues that may result from the merger process. A1. Bill Bailey Illustrate how Bill Bailey, might use one theory of motivation to support or oppose the merger. Background: There are two perspectives when talking about theories of motivation; Content Theories and Process Theories. These two theories can complement each other instead of compete as alternatives. Content theories deal with “the what” of motivation. They try to explain the forces which drive human behavior by fulfilling physiological and personal needs. They look at deficiencies because of the belief that if the need is met, people will not be further motivated to meet that need. Physiological needs include basics such as food, safety, and affiliation. Personal growth needs follow second after physiological needs have been met. These needs include self-esteem, purpose and self-actualization. Process theories go somewhat more in depth to explain motivation. They deal with “the how” of motivation. How did a specific process lead to an outcome of motivation? This information is important because it can show how the process may be measured and then replicated. It provides a way to explain how to motivate for change One theory of motivation Bill Bailey might use is the process theory known as the Expectancy Theory. Kinicki & Kreitner (2010) tell us the Expectancy Theory was developed by Victor Vroom in 1964 to produce a systematic explanatory theory of workplace...
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...Back in 2002, arts communities across the United States were experiencing financial hardships due to the weakening economy and declines in public and private support resources. Two art organizations in Salt Lake City, Utah; the Utah Opera and Utah Symphony, are just two examples that experienced these hardships. In order to alleviate the effects of those hardships, the two company boards and Anne Ewers (general director of the Utah Opera) are convening in meetings to discuss merger of the 2 organizations. Anne Ewers was approached whether she would be interested in becoming the CEO of the merged organization. Anne Ewers has a good reputation for being energetic, enthusiastic, and fully capable of assuming this position. Her reputation also entails retiring a $450,000 debt at a previous company and growing the Utah Opera’s annual budget from $1.5 million to $5 million. A merger of the two companies will bring about different reactions and emotions from both sides and the community. We will analyze motivations of various constituents to better understand their positions for or against the merger and assist Anne Ewers in identifying issues she may experience. A1. Bill Bailey Bill Bailey is the chairman of the board of trustees at the Utah Opera. Mr. Bailey and the board will have direct a direct say in the merger by voting yes or no. When Mr. Bailey was made aware of the proposal for merger, he had concerns and showed opposition towards the merger. To motivate the rest of the...
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...poet called Sheenagh Pugh, another female poet who shares the same views as Duffy. The first poem I will discuss is ‘Standing Female Nude’. This poem discusses the issues of women not voicing their intelligence to men, the main theme in this poem being that the artist Georges Braque, the artist who developed cubism with Picasso, thinks that he is above her. The model is not asked for her opinion on the art and is constantly told to be quiet, her identity not being revealed to us as if it is not important. Duffy wrote this poem to show how women feel being treated in such an awful way and also, she is a strong feminist and believed that the model deserved to have her voice heard. The poem I will be using as comparison is ‘Senesino/Farinelli’. This poem is about two famous opera singers named Senesino and Farinelli, both men being eunuchs. The poem starts with the model telling the reader that she is posing naked for the painting in which Georges is creating, ‘They call it Art’. The model mocks Georges and the art because we see that she doesn’t view his work with any interest. The ‘Art’ that she creates is very much different to Georges...
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...expanding one’s career. However being a child celebrity means he could not stand being treated like a servant when he grew up to work for his patron. This caused unhappiness during his days in Salzburg and he left to achieve success in Vienna. Clara Wieck, the leading pianist of the Romantic period, was already famous at a very young age due to her dad’s strong encouragement and promotion. Her early exposure to concertising made her believe that she was born to perform and she performed throughout her life, playing many virtuosic piano pieces including her own compositions for her programmes. However, she was not confident of her own writing as female composers were frowned upon during that period. Thus she did not write as many works in comparison to her husband Robert Schumann and friends for example Johann Brahms. It was a pity that Clara Wieck did not leave behind many beautiful works due to such judgement as some of her pieces were actually well-received, for example Romance in G minor, Op. 22 No. 2 that she wrote for her good friend, Joseph Joachim, to perform for King George V of Hanover. Her father also had strong control of her life and was strongly against her marriage till she had to go to the court to marry her husband Robert Schumann. This created tension between her relationship with her father that they did not see each other for a few years. A child may grow up to be rebellious if the parents control too much and be overly protective. Mozart and Wieck had a very...
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...The stylistic composer Georges Bizet who composed the world-renowned Carmen was performed at the Metropolitan Opera House last week. Among other opera versions of Carmen, Bizet had an extremely firm and yet ambitious vision of what he wanted to accomplish with simple melody lines. The unifying wholeness of the opera in addition to its cardinal elements was not only impressive, but achieved an ethereal level of musicality. He has always strived for perfect compositions that constitute the quintessential opera: libretto, the direction of the stage，score of music, and vocal talent. The way producer Richard Eyre presented Bizet’s Carmen formed an incredibly stolid foundation for the structure of the work, giving the stage an intense atmosphere...
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...focused solely on marketing but views transactions as exchanges of value. 3. Leaders are often hard-driving competitors to who seek to always deliver the goods. Clan - 1. Less of a focus on structure and control and a greater concern for flexibility. 2. People are driven through a shared goal and outcome. 3. Leaders act in a facilitative and supportive way. Adhocracy – 1. Greater independence and flexibility than the Clan which is necessary in a rapidly changing environment. 2. The adhocracy rapidly forms teams to face new challenges. 3. Leaders are innovative entrepreneurs who take calculated risks to make significant gains. Slide 3 – Comparison of current cultures of both the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera utilizing the Competing Values Framework: Utah Opera – Market – Currently, the Utah Opera would be classified as a...
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...This edition of “Come, all ye songster” composed by Henry Purcell from his famous opera, The Fairy Queen (1962), was edited by Michael Burden, who had his translation edited through the Ernst Eulenburg Ltd publishing company, currently located in Mainz, Germany. Michael Burden is a Fellow in Music at New College, and Professor in Opera Studies at the University. Burden completed his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, and his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has served on the Council of the Royal Musical Association, is a patron member of the American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, a trustee of Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), and is currently the...
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...Illustrate how Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, might use one theory of motivation to oppose or support the merger. It is understood that the merger of the Utah Opera and the Utah Symphony has several positive factors. However, Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera, strongly opposes the merger. It is up to him to convince the remaining board members to vote in opposition as well. Mr. Bailey can use the Adam’s Equity Theory to accomplish this. The Adam’s Equity Theory, as a process theory of motivation, explains how an individual’s motivation to behave in a certain way is fueled by feelings of inequity or a lack of justice (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2010). This is especially true for give and take relationships, which Mr. Bailey feels is the situation at hand. There are two main components of any relationship, inputs and outcomes. The Utah Opera is financially stable and because they do not employ full-time musicians, can alter their schedule when necessary fund raising has not been accomplished. The Utah Symphony, on the other hand, has a large staff of contracted employees who are paid full salary for the entire year. The Opera owns their property while the Symphony’s theater is owned by the county. By looking at past financial statements, it is apparent that the Opera historically operates at a much greater surplus of funds than the Symphony. Mr. Bailey feels that the Opera will be offering a greater input than the Symphony while the...
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...Babette’s Feast is about two pious aging sisters living an extreme sense of Lutheranism in a small, isolated northern village; their very simple and mundane form of living is challenged when a French civil war refugee, Babette, knocks on their doorstep with a letter from Papin, the world renowned Opera Singer, who in fact was fairly astonished and infatuated by one of the sisters during his initial visit decades ago. The father of the two sisters was a delusional preacher, who believed in the ludicrous idea that for one to attain eternal salvation, one must renounce all physical and sensual pleasure life has to offer them, something that the sisters follow with the most unwavering dedication. Who knew a Stranger from the city could change all that through a 7-course meal. The film centralized on its most prominent image: Food. No image could better fit comparing the joyless austerity of the Lutheran sect of the sisters, Martine and Philippa to what is coming to them after the dinner celebration than the meals. Before Babette’s presence is felt, the village lived a very monotonous, dull and repetitious lifestyle. The sky is gray, the sea even grayer. The sisters sit indoors to eat their usual bowls of dried fish and dull brown mush with the most horrible excuse for bread one has ever seen. As viewers will soon find out, the food is the perfect measuring apparatus of change around the village. Throughout the film, viewers see the daily fare of dried fish cut in half, hanging...
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...band, therefore not most people want to play it. There are two types of french horns, the single and the double french horn. I play the double french horn. The difference of the too of them (the double french horn) is one is two horns combined. This is a french horn. (Show them the instrument) The french horn was invented by Heinrich Stoelzel, a member of the band of the prince of pless. The first horns were the horns and tusks of animals. Later, Heinrich created a valve and created the first french horn. Early horns were less complex than modern horns because they were barely being created at that time.Over time, french horns have become much more complex from those in the past. This is a comparison(Show them the pictures) Horns were first used as musical instruments in the 1600’s, in operas. Later, they began to be used in modern bands and the orchestra. My passion for the french horn came from my love for band. When I was in elementry school, I always had an idea of what I wanted to do elective wise. I did not want to do chorus,or orchestra, I wanted to do band. Whenever i went to a veteran’s day parade or a christmas parade, the one thing that would astonish me was the marching bands. I didn’t care about the floats or the color guard, I only loved the bands. So I decided that I wanted to be like the marching band. The first years of band, I played the trumpet. I liked it, but as I came to junior high, I wanted to try something new. So my teacher suggested I play the french...
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...Sister Flowers / Someone’s Mother In this essay we will discuss the comparison and contrast of two stories, Sister Flowers and Someone’s Mother. One of the easiest comparisons is that both of these stories were written in the first person by the authors. In Sister Flowers the author tells a tale of the struggle she had dealing with a traumatic event. In the same way, Someone’s Mother tells of the struggle the author had in leaving an elderly woman lost and alone. Also, both stories show a person’s genuine concern to help someone in need. Sister Flowers deals with a woman helping a child to find her voice in life. Likewise, Someone’s Mother shares the story of a woman who helps a hitchhiker who has seemed to have lost her way. Though both stories showed similarities they also were different in many ways. One of the ways in which the two stories contrast is that both took place in different parts of the country and in different eras. Sister Flowers is set in Arkansas in around the 30’s; however, Someone’s Mother was further north in New York and took place in 2007. Another difference between the stories was they both had different agendas. Someone’s Mother was more of a story dealing with the characters compassion. In Sister Flowers you felt the story leaning more towards the inner struggle of the character. In conclusion, you can see that there are many similarities as well as differences in these stories. Both were thoroughly enjoyable and should be recommended for all to...
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