...The Effects of Population Density and Noise Toni Kubitscheck University of Phoenix Environmental Psychology PSY/460 Cheryl Sanders December 07, 2011 The Effects of Population Density and Noise WHAT??? Speak up, there are so many people in here and it is so loud… In analyzing the effects that nose and population density have on the human race, it is not uncommon for people to be affected in many different and negative ways. However, there are a vast number of negative factors that affect individuals in either their work or home environments such as: noise, population changes, territoriality issues, privacy, and personal space issues just to name a few, there can be just as many positive impacts as well. As population becomes denser or increases it is only natural that noise pollution is going to increase too, and along with the increase in population and noise, concepts of trust, privacy and personal space issues increase. The effects of these issues become increasingly negative. However, there are factors within personal environments that increase positive impacts upon individuals, for instance in every city, county and state there are parks, nature trails, zoos, and other wonderful environments within bigger environments that people can utilize to counter balance the negative impacts. Concepts of territoriality, privacy, and personal space are all cognitive processes that portray ownership including; places, possessions, and even people. Therefore, with the growth...
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...Sequence of Personal Responsibility. (July 2009). In Brookings. Retrieved from <http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2009/07/09-responsibility-haskins> The main point of this article is personal responsibility is dependent on the individual that agrees to social standards. If these standards are not meet these individuals finds a source besides themselves to place the blame. Haskins then goes on to say that people should be taught of basic principles such as: how to determine a good choice and a bad choice. Then the article continues to describe the major importance of enforcing more traditional values to further improve individuals. In turn this correlates with my essay perfectly considering the thesis statement is similar to my own and thus strengthens it thoroughly. Not only does it embody my thesis statement, it includes vivid detail on this can be applied in various situations such as: education, marriage, and work. Potent examples: * Education: Students that dedicate themselves to hard work and learn as much as they can are bound success. This affects what role they may be given and can continuously advance them towards a life of prosperity and serenity. * Marriage: Persons who do devote themselves to their spouses and but times aside to be with them are going to have a prosperous life together. It is important that they set certain duties for each other and agree to them. This becomes their personal responsibility to each other. * Work: education...
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...Ethics from Personal Decisions to Organizational Procedures Class: BUS512 Organizational Behavior 13th edition Authors: D Hellriegel and J W Solcum, Jr 2008 South-Western, Cengage Learning Abstract There are standards people govern themselves by and expect everyone else to live by. Everyone’s everyday decision are not only actions that affect themselves but everyone else around them. These rules, decisions, and behaviors make up a person’s ethics. Ethics are the morals and beliefs that help to tell the difference between what is right and what is wrong. It is comprised of many things but not solely defined by any of them. Ethics can be learned from religion but if ethics was a religious practice it would be reserved for saints but even atheists practice ethics. Some say ethics comes from how you feel but the truth is feelings are always fluctuating and changing. If your feelings change then you are really acting on your feelings and not your ethics. Ethics is independent of feelings yet dependent on thinking if something is right or wrong. All these cover personal ethics that a person has. When stepping into a work environment there are organized ethics that are placed by the company. Organizational ethics help to align everyone’s ethics under a general atmosphere of what is right and what is wrong. These personal ethics and organizational ethics as well as organizational policies are all under constant evaluation as individuals make choices...
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...The Effects of Population Density and Noise Paper Your Name PSY460 Date Instructor Name The Effects of Population Density and Noise Paper * Concepts of Territoriality, Privacy, and Personal Space Territoriality refers to a limited district for a person or animal and the tendency to defend an area of territory (Oxford, 1042); whereas personal, or one’ private space indicates the region humans or animals designate as their own. The relationship between the thoughts of territoriality, privacy, and personal personal space to population mass is associated with behavior. For example, Rubenstein (1980) examined changes in population mass and supply patterns, and noted how these changes affects the hostile behavior of the small sunfish. According to Rubenstein, the means by which small sunfish contend for nourishment is swayed by the mass of the inhabitants, the dispersal of victims, and the gender domination position of a person. Studies on territorial rights showed that Increases in prey dispersion reduced the proportion of battles over possessions in both low and high mass populations (Morrell & Koko, 200). Morrell & Koko sought to explain how animals establish territorial ownership, which is viewed as a major determinant of fitness in territorial animals. Some other behavioral characteristics associated with the establishment of territories include: (a) subordinates initiate fights over resources; (b) initiators are unlikely to contest prey in low mass inhabitants;...
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...operational efficiency and enhancing pro people focus, safety is one of the most important areas of improvement. It becomes even more critical in a labor intensive industries like manufacturing and construction. Most of the industries have adopted a well set standard operating procedures and efforts are on to get it better day by day. The focus of our study has been to identify the factors which affects the safety awareness, minimizes accidents at workplace and as a result meets operational efficiency of the organization. When the effect of these factors are positive, we may conclude that the organization is people oriented. Previous Studies: One of the earlier studies in this area was conducted by Cox & Cox in the year 1991 for European industrial gas sector. It had considered five factors affecting the safety parameters – effectiveness of arrangements for safety, individual responsibility, individual skepticism, safeness of work environment and personal immunity. This study was done not keeping in mind any specific industry and later on further studies revealed that model and frameworks for employee attitudes to safety...
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...Exploring Negative effects of social media in work places Muriithi, Mary Watetu A research term paper in econometrics submitted to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the PHD degree in Business Administration Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture &Technology 2014 DECLARATION This report is my original work and has not been submitted or presented for examination in any other university, either in part or as a whole. Supervisor – …………………………………. Signature………………………….. Date……………………………………… Name: MURIITHI, MARY WATETU Signature………………………. Date: ……………………………… Table of contents I. Title……………………………………………………………………. 1 II. Declaration ……………………………………………………………. 2 III. Table of Contents……………………………………………………… 3 IV. List of Tables…………………………………………………………… 4 V. Symbols and Abbreviations…………………………………………… 5 IV Abstract…………..…………………………………………………. 6 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………….. 8 1. Background…………………………………………………….. 8 2. Statement Of The Problem……………………………………… 8 3. Purpose of the study………………………………………...…… 8 4. Specific Objectives……………………………………………… 8 5. Research Questions……………………………………………… 8 6. Justification Of The Study……………………………………… 8 7. Limitations of the study………………………………………… 11 2. Literature review…………………………………………………… ….. 12 1. Conceptual framework……………………………………….. 14 3. Methodology…………………………………………………………….. 15 ...
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...job characteristics or incentives leads to worker satisfaction at work, while another and separate set of job characteristics leads to dissatisfaction at work. Thus, satisfaction and dissatisfaction are not on a continuum with one increasing as the other diminishes, but are independent phenomena. Two-factor theory distinguishes between. 1. Motivators (challenging work, recognition, responsibility) that give positive satisfaction, arising from intrinsic conditions of the job itself, such as recognition, achievement, or personal growth. 2. Hygiene factors (status, job security salary, fringe benefits, work conditions, company policies, supervisory practices, or wages/salary) that do not give positive satisfaction, though dissatisfaction results from their absence. Essentially, hygiene factors are needed to ensure an employee is not dissatisfied. Motivation factors are needed to motivate an employee to higher performance. The following are the motivation factors. 1. Achievement. Receive high reviews on completion of task before time so satisfaction and of same person is unable to finish the project in time and is unable to do the job well, the satisfaction level may decrease. 2. Recognition .receives the acknowledgement they deserve for a job well done, satisfaction is high. If criticized then satisfaction is low. 3. Work it. This involves the employee’s perception of whether the work is too difficult or challenging, too easy, boring or interesting...
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...is located in Portland, Oregon. Helen’s significant other, Tom Hunt, will be moving with her to Portland. Helen’s children from a previous marriage will also be joining her in Portland. The children have been living with their father in Spain for the past year. Helen easily sells the San Francisco house in which she and Tom live. Helen is the sole owner of the house. However, she has a harder time finding the right home in Portland. Helen has to make several trips to Portland before buying a house under construction. It will not be available for occupancy for at least 20 days after she arrives in Portland. Tom accompanied Helen on the house-hunting trips to give his opinion on the houses and to look for a new job. The actual move takes place as follows. The movers arrive on Wednesday to pack up Helen’s and Tom’s household items. Thursday, the movers pack up Helen’s items from a storage unit located outside of the city along with her sailboat. The movers then leave for Portland. Helen hires a college student to drive her car to Portland; the driver leaves on Friday. On Saturday, after dropping Helen at the airport for her flight to Portland, Tom leaves to drive his car to Portland via Salt Lake City, Utah, where he also visits his brother. Helen and Tom stayed in a hotel from Wednesday to Friday while still in San Francisco and upon arriving in Portland until the house is ready for occupancy. The moving company stores their household items at its warehouse until Helen and Tom...
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...with Giles for several months, which was an uncommon story among the partners, but became clear to most of junior staff as the audit work progressed; • Both explicitly knew the policy but tried to be discreet and hide the facts; • The firm HR has the policy that two members with different ranks within the firm should not date. After feeling distracted by Giles’ personal behaviours during the work and cautioned by her friend Revilo about the severe consequences, Regas decided to put the date aside while Giles was reluctant to give it up; • The firm was facing the possibility of jeopardizing the productivity and efficiency of the audit work, and violating the compliance with the firm’s policy and norms; • The audit’s controller Sax accidentally knew this issue and reported to the managing partner Morris who decided to talk to Giles and make ethical decisions. b) Ethical and Professional Issues • Violation of CPA’s professional and moral obligations; Noncompliance with firm’s HR policy and professional code of conduct, as well as the firm’s universally respected and obeyed rules and norms; • Potential problem that the number of hours billed is out of line with work of similar nature and fee estimation; the audit hour budget may be jeopardized due to the fact that the two staff take advantage of work hours for personal business; it should’ve been more efficient to hit certain tasks had no such issues been found; • The involvement of private...
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...professionals work under many conditions that make them susceptible to experiencing burnout. This paper will define burnout and discuss some of the individual, organizational, and cultural support factors that cause human service professionals to experience burnout (Lewis, 2007). Various individual, job role, and organizational methods employed to prevent burnout will also be addressed (Lewis, 2007). Deniece will discuss how she reacts and respond to personal and work-related stress and give insight into how she works to reduce the effects of burnout (Lewis, 2007). Last, Deniece will identify how she prepares to assist staff who she believes may be experiencing burnout. Human Service Professional Burnout Many human service professionals fall victim to employee burnout, mainly because of heavy caseloads, minimal resources, and tremendously cut budgets. These individuals may start to experience a sense of increasing emotional and physical exhaustion, hopelessness, and loss of motivation. Employees experiencing these feeling are experiencing employee burnout. Many times the employee is not aware of what is happening to him or her at the time. Burnout has three defined dimensions; emotional exhaustion that is the feeling of being psychologically detached. Depersonalization occurs when human service workers disassociated themselves from his or her clients and seems uncaring or unconcerned about his or her client’s needs or issues. The last dimension is reduced personal accomplishment...
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...messages can be considered ambiguous because they have an objective, critical component, but also a motivational component in the form of constructive feedback. In organizations, feedback is considered as a first step to improvement and personal development. This makes it an important resource fuelling our motivation at work (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007). However, if information is likely to be negative, media choice can be crucial in delivering the feedback (Fulk & Mani, 1986). In our western society it is not done to send negative personal feedback by e-mail. In such a situation, F2F interaction is preferred. The question is, what is in best concern of the employee? The space between the sender of the feedback (manager) and the receiver (employee) is regulated by the context of the interaction and by the history of the relationship between the two (Lave, 1993). Positive feedback is not that difficult to deliver because it usually makes the receiver happier. Media choice is also no issue, since positive messages are less ambiguous and more easily interpretable than negative messages. However, many people have a natural reluctance in communicating undesirable feedback, which is in the literature known as the “mum effect” (Rosen & Tesser, 1970). This effect can be explained in the expectations of the sender that the news (s)he is going to deliver can be psychologically unpleasant for both the receiver and the sender (e.g., Maynard, 1996; Tesser & Rosen, 1975). Before the communication...
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...stresses are divided into the following categories; Biological, chemical physical, erganomic and psychological. According to British occupational hygiene society (BOHS), occupational hygiene is about the prevention of ill-health from work through recognizing evaluation and controlling the risk. Occupational hygiene has been involved historically with changing the perception of society about nature and extent of hazards in the workplace. Many occupational hygienists work day to day with industrial situations that require control or improvement to the workplace situation however larger social issues affecting whole industries have occurred in the past. E.g since 1900, asbestos exposures have affected the lives of ten thousand of people in the later part of the 2000s concern has been raised about the health effects of nanoparticles. Many of those issues have required the coordination over a number of years of a number of medical and Para professionals in detecting and than characterizing the nature of the issue, the risk to the work place and ultimately to society. This has involved occupational hygienists in research, collection of data and to develop suitable and satisfactory control methodologies. TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST Work activities vary between specialist areas and employers, but may include. * Under taking workplace surveys and evaluating situation in the workplace * Assessing risk to health arising from many different factors such as chemical...
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...Unit 1 Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a USB drive • Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference • Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number. Please note that this Assessment document has 16 pages and is made up of 5 Parts. Name: Part 1: Understanding equality This section will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know the meaning of equality |Learning objective |Place in Assessment | |1.1 Define the following terms: |Question 1 Page 1 | |Equality | | |Stereotyping | | |Prejudice | | |Labelling ...
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...The mobilisation of technology: Will the ever increasing number of smart mobile devices (iPhones etc...) impact on the way we conduct our lives (work and private). Executive summary The ever growing world of technology has shown its age starting from many years back. It has now become a revolution into the new smart devices which has been influencing the way we conduct business, work or even our personal life. In this age of high technology smart phones have become part of everyday life. In recent years, there has been a rapid evolution of smart phones in the global phone market. As the name implies, smart phones are supposed to be smart. In a nutshell, smart phones are cell phones that are added with much other functionality out of a traditional cellular phone originally designed for phone calls and messages. Improved with the advanced digital and Internet technology, smart phones function as a personal digital device or a mini personal computer which you carry with to any place you go (Pei and Zheng, 2005) From the years of using a normal single display mobile phone the technology has matured and has evolved in today’s world in the form of a smart phone. This is influencing the DNA pattern of an individual as it has changed the way we do our daily life which could be personal or professional along with the way we conduct our business. The concept of Smart phone is to integrate the telephone system with the processing power of a computer system and to be able to run various...
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...will be monitoring your emails and internet usage. This new policy will take effect immediately and the monitoring will only take place when you are at work (ie: at the workplace or any other place working). While at work we want to make sure that you are using your time to perform work, please make sure that you are using the internet as needed to perform your job and ensure that you are not using your email for personal use or to conduct any other business. We will also be blocking certain websites on Company owned equipment. This policy change is to protect the integrity of the company as well as to ensure that company time is being used in appropriate ways. We are sure that you will stick to the policy at all times while “at work.” Any questions or concerns should be directed to the HR department directly. Controversies We understand that this might feel like an invasion of privacy but please understand that that is not what this policy is meant to do. We want to protect the company and our customers as well as ensure that we are adhering to the laws when it comes to your privacy. We also want to ensure that when on company time employees are using that time to carry out work related tasks. Please understand and know that we will not be using any of your personal information, nor will we disperse it in anyway. We will ensure that we still to the current legislation when the policy takes effect. We want the workplace to remain safe for all employees as well as our customers...
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