...Why Do You Want to Work at McDonald's? I want to work for McDonald's to not only help myself but also to help my family. My mother has been sick and unable to work so I want to show how much I appreciate all that she does and help out with the bills. Also I heard that McDonalds is a great place to move up quickly in. I enjoy working, expecially in a fast paced enviorment, and I love making people smile, with a great team that McDonalds has to offer. I would love to work for this company. Are you a Leader or Follower? Mcdonald's is very big in team working so if they ask you this question your best bet is to say "I am a leader when needed but I can also work well with others in a team environment." Why McDonalds? I want to work here for the work experience in a busy environment. Why work at McDonald's? I'd like to join in your company to improve my ability. I'm willing to learn. Why Do You Want to Work at McDonald's? I've always been interested in cooking and I thought working at McDonalds will be a great start and experience for me to learn the skills I need to be successful. Quick Learner I'm being honest. I've never worked anywhere and I think that McDonalds is somewhere I could start. I'm twenty years old and need a career path. I catch on easily and learn quickly. My qualities are that I am out-going, willing, and I have paticence. I am low on cash times and need to get a job. Working at McDonald's I want to work at McDonald's because I want to excel...
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...have to pick always what seems to be the best, just pick whatever makes you really happy, and it will be the best and perfect choice” In this imperfect world, we aim for perfection, but at the same time, we find our own place in the sun, finding meaning in what we do, and in return being happy and content with our decisions… and this includes decisions involving what work will provide us that kind of fulfilling feeling. Much has been theorized regarding what drives people to work… what motivates them to give their best in what they do while others do not really care about the quality and quantity of work so long as they could provide food on the table or receiving something from the services they render. Motivation will actually explain why people see their work as “just a job” (trabaho lang which connotes impersonal relationship with what they do), while others see it as a career (karera, which implies personal involvement and/or engagement in what they do). My personal theory of motivation, which I named AI, not the usual Artificial Intelligence stuff but more on “Ako Ito’, which represents that a person’s motivation to work tells something either consciously, subconsciously or even unconsciously of what type of person he/she is. It means how he does his work, his passion and his attitude tells something of his personality or it reflects his/her identity, what he wants to achieve, what he wants to be known for or even how he wants to be remembered. To experience satisfaction...
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...company is able to function properly. There are many different levels of employees within a company such as management, trainees, supervisors, owners, sales, and so on. Without all of the different positions it would leave a company with over loads of work for one person and would not leave room for variety with-in the work place. I would definitely have to say though that a company is developed around the type of leaders that represent that company and it is very important that company consists of the best supervisors and managers to carry the team. There are main functions within being a supervisor that helps carry the supervising role smoothly. The few that we are going to be talking about in this manual to help give examples of the best practices for supervisors is demonstrating communication skills, determining effective orientation and training methods, improving productivity for teams, conducting performance appraisals, resolving conflict, and improving employee relations. Good communication skills in the work place are a very big skill to have and make sure you are doing properly. “Communication is the act of exchanging information” (“Developing communication skills,” 2004) so any information that needs to be done in the work place needs to be communicated properly amongst employees. Communicating well with others and making sure every bit of information is being communicated clearly and properly will save a supervisor time of re correcting a situation because it did not...
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...culture of Best Buy reflects a traditional business to being a more contemporary, flexible work schedule. Before the ROWE program, many workers were tired of being overworked, not being able to spend quality time with their families. It seemed like the employees worked on their day off, come in early, leave late to make deadlines and it was just overall stressful. As stated the company’s culture used to embraced long hours and sacrifice (Hellriegel/Slocum, 2011 p. 553). With all of this coming into play Best Buy chose to implement a new structure to help motivate the workers called the ROWE program. The number of people in the United States who say they are overworked as been rising from 28 percent of Americans in 2001 to 44 percent in 2009, according to Families and Work Institute. Instead of launching a “work-life balance” program, Best Buy rethought the very concept of work. Under the Results-Only Work Environment program, ROWE. Here the employees can work when and where they like, as long as they get the job done. (Hellriegel/Slocum, 2011 p. 553). The ROWE program consists of 13 principles and rules, the key ones are: There are no work schedules in the traditional sense, every meeting is optional, with a few key exceptions, employees are not to judge how colleagues spend their time, thus there is no focus on “how many hours did you work.”, Work is not a place you go , it’s something you do, as long as the work gets done, employees do whatever they want whenever...
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...Keep Their Best Talent 124 comments, 9 called-out + Comment now Whether it’s a high-profile tech company like Yahoo!, or a more established conglomerate like GE or Home Depot, large companies have a hard time keeping their best and brightest in house. Recently, Giga OM discussed the troubles at Yahoo! with a flat stock price, vested options for some of their best people, and the apparent free flow of VC dollars luring away some of their best people to do the start-up thing again. Move up Move down Yet, Yahoo!, GE, Home Depot, and other large established companies have a tremendous advantage in retaining their top talent and don’t. I’ve seen the good and the bad things that large companies do in relation to talent management. Here’s my Top Ten list of what large companies do to lose their top talent: 1. Big Company Bureaucracy. This is probably the #1 reason we hear after the fact from disenchanted employees. However, it’s usually a reason that masks the real reason. No one likes rules that make no sense. But, when top talent is complaining along these lines, it’s usually a sign that they didn’t feel as if they had a say in these rules. They were simply told to follow along and get with the program. No voice in the process and really talented people say “check please.” 2. Failing to Find a Project for the Talent that Ignites Their Passion. Big companies have many moving parts — by definition. Therefore, they usually don’t have people going around to their best and brightest...
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...| Rowe Program at Best Buy | BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior | Dr. Hillman | Hillary Jackson | 12/10/2011 | | Describe the culture of Best Buy Throughout the years the best buy culture has changed tremendously. The culture at best buy started with many of the employees being overworked, underappreciated and under paid. The culture of sacrificing spending time with family for working longs hours has now changed to a more relaxed culture. The employees are now able to set their own schedules and manage their work the way they think is best. The book states that before the ROWE program started employees were expected to stay at work until a solution was found, this meant employees were rearranging their family schedules to meet business needs. They were debating whether they should quit the job because of the high demands and sacrifice they endured. Every day they were having an internal struggle with themselves on whether the job was worth all the heartache. Another example shows an employee being rewarded with a plaque for staying up three days straight to finish a report, which in turn caused this employee to end up in the hospital Hellreigel & Slocum). The old traditions were not moving the company ahead and it needed to be changed. Although the quantity of work being produced was the same, women were accepting jobs considered to be part-time. This was the only option they had that allowed them to have the flexibility and family time they...
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...ROWE Program at Best Buy Abstract This paper answers the following questions about the ROWE Program at Best Buy story. 1. Describe the culture of Best Buy. 2. Discuss the approach to organizational change that the ROWE program illustrates. 3. Discuss the resistance, both organization and individual, that the ROWE program had to overcome. 4. Discuss the sources of stress that are apparent in the case. 5. Discuss whether or not the organizational culture has helped with the change. Best Buy implemented the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) program to promote a work, home, and life balance with a dedication to diversity and personal responsibility. With this implementation they also encouraged creativity and innovation. Creating this type of culture allows people to develop strong, enduring and independent working relationships with both their clients and their colleagues. The main objective is to create team-oriented and collaborative places to work to improve productivity, profits, and provide better customer service. Best buy culture was that of a company that encouraged long hours and direct supervision. They often celebrated these occurrences with rewards and frowned on those who did not participate in “putting their time in” to help the company become more productive. This type of culture was one of the reasons that Best Buy decided to adopt the ROWE program. The implementation of ROWE requires a complete overhaul of people's attitudes...
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...in that matter. It is important to practice these types of things because you want your organization to succeed you should do things the right way and make sure you, and your employees follow the guidelines and rules and live by them. As a leader when you follow rules, and do things that follow the rules and guidelines of your company your fellow employees will want to do the same. It is very important to lead by example. The word leader means a person who led or leads the group or organization. Which means the person who is in charge. Employees look up to this person, so it is very important to treat them right. When you treat your employees and clients right they do right by you. As a leader in social work I would make sure I improve human welfare. There are a lot of families, and individuals that do not get the benefits they are entitled to and I would make sure they get those benefits. I would also make sure Individuals such as clients are spoken to in a respectful, and professional manner. As a leader I want to do a whole lot, but I will also make sure my employees get the benefits they deserve, and get the evaluations and one on one time they deserve as well. I am about my community and helping my community. I also want to make sure my employees are getting the respect they deserve, when you treat your employees with respect they will work hard for you and do their best. They will also work hard and have the upmost respect if they feel the encouragement, boost they need...
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...even triple my time to understand more and to learn more. Math also needs time to understand. You need to spend your time and also effort to get want you want because if you work hard fot it you have the chance to get what you work hard for. It was just some of the people easily gave up on this subject. There was never been a winner on those who gave up. If you want to learn you must work for it. If you want to understand do some effort. I consider myself as a pessimistic person. I hate facing problems because I think I cannot solved it alone. I was so dependent with other persons most especially my bestfriend since my mother was gone and maybe that’s the reason why I don’t love math but now I’ve realize that life is just like a unsolved problem. You need to work for it, you need to do some efforts, you must dig deeper to get the solutions and to solved the problems. For me math is not really an easy subject. You need a lot of patience, focus and also courage. Some people doesn’t need to spend a lot of their time studying math because they were really good at it but in my case I realize that I was not really got at this subject so I need to double or even triple my time to understand more and to learn more. Math also needs time to understand. You need to spend your time and also effort to get want you want because if you work hard fot it you have the chance to get what you...
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...even triple my time to understand more and to learn more. Math also needs time to understand. You need to spend your time and also effort to get want you want because if you work hard fot it you have the chance to get what you work hard for. It was just some of the people easily gave up on this subject. There was never been a winner on those who gave up. If you want to learn you must work for it. If you want to understand do some effort. I consider myself as a pessimistic person. I hate facing problems because I think I cannot solved it alone. I was so dependent with other persons most especially my bestfriend since my mother was gone and maybe that’s the reason why I don’t love math but now I’ve realize that life is just like a unsolved problem. You need to work for it, you need to do some efforts, you must dig deeper to get the solutions and to solved the problems. For me math is not really an easy subject. You need a lot of patience, focus and also courage. Some people doesn’t need to spend a lot of their time studying math because they were really good at it but in my case I realize that I was not really got at this subject so I need to double or even triple my time to understand more and to learn more. Math also needs time to understand. You need to spend your time and also effort to get want you want because if you work hard fot it you have the chance to get what you...
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...Mentor Plan I strong believe that everyone want to be better one, but how to make an improvement plan is an important issue for us. For me, I want to speak English better, work out better, and write a resume better. In my opinion, I think a good mentor and a good plan are very important, because a good mentor can give the best advice to us, and a good plan can track our improvements. Otherwise, from the article “How to play your strengths” I got that to know yourself better is important too, because before you find the best plan to fit you, you should to know what is your strengths and weakness, then you can use your strengths to control your weakness, so you can overcome your weakness easier. In addition, the Reflected Best Self exercise is a perfect tool to know yourself better. Anyway, I will use this exercise to reach my all goals. For my first goal, I want to speak English better, this is my biggest goal. Actually I have been United Stated for almost four years, but my speaking is still not good, and I feel hard to communicate with American sometimes. Otherwise, I really want to know more information about U.S. And if I do some business with some customers who speak English in the future, so fluent English is very important to me. Therefore I have to improve my speaking, and then I can know what I want to know via communication with American, and success in business with international customers. For my second goal, I want to work out better. I have been working out for two...
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...have a horrible problem with procrastination, most of the time I am not too bad with it, but there are times when I just don’t want to do something and I will keep putting it off till I am forced to have to do it. I wish I would just get it done and not have to worry about it. So I want to discover ways to manage my time effectively and hopefully stave off the ability to procrastinate. The information that I will gather will be about time management skills, how to keep a schedule and how to say no. I will research using Google to find how other people manage their time, and what steps they take to keep to a schedule. I will also research how to best manage a busy schedule and make sure that everything that needs to get done is getting done and how to recognize when I am procrastinating and the steps I can take to avoid those traps. I will look at articles, e-books and forums for information and tips. For my selected problem it is not necessary to have scientific methods to help solve it, I almost think it best to learn from others with the same concerns and the steps they took to solve it. So I think the forums are probably my best bet. I will also look for polite ways to tell people that I am not available. Especially since this is one of the major factors for my procrastination. I tend to say yes, just because what I really need to do does not sound like as much fun. I am not looking for extensive research and scientists and studies done on this topic, what...
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...person usually has to work hard and believe in themselves. Being successful at what you do can also be very motivating. Success usually goes hand in hand with appreciation. If someone succeeds at what they do, they will most certainly appreciate it. This helps in striving to achieve more goals and for more success in life. To some people, success means being the best at what you can do. Just taking part and achieving regular standards is not enough. People who always want to be the best are usually the ones who achieve their goals, they put in hard work and dedication in everything they say and do. Success means more to some than others. Some people want to be successful by all means, not caring how hard or how long it takes. Others are satisfied by simply trying and giving what they believe to be their best whether they succeeded or not. Success only appears meaningful to those individuals with a purpose. One of their keys to success is to work on finding their purpose in life. The true meaning of success isn't just about becoming the best you can at what you do, but about knowing that you completed your purpose and goal. The meaning of success lies within you. I accomplish success by putting god in front of everything that I do in my life. I’ve learned that with him in my life nothing is impossible. I can accomplish a lot with his holy guidance and healing. Many people who don’t believe in god usually have faith or hope in the things that they do, which motivates them to...
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...To be completely honest, I have never been much of a leader. I have always been a bit shy and I never really liked the idea of telling anyone what to do. The only times I ever really take the role of leader is to my siblings or when I get stuck with working with a group that wants to procrastinate for school projects. Other than that there, I choose to let others take the role, unless I see that they are struggling or tormenting the people they are leading. One of the main reasons I am trying so hard to go to college is because of my three younger brothers. Of course, I do it for myself as well, but my younger brothers and I grew up with people telling us that we would not go to college because we would either get married straight out...
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...working 24/7. I want to be able to make memories with the ones I love the most. Work wise I want to be with a company that I can grow with. I want to be able to add on to the skills that I already have and move up in the company. I want to have a passion in the career I am in, because I want to enjoy what I do. I want to be recognized and respected for what I do, I consider myself being a hard worker and I would appreciate it being notice. I think if it was noticed I would be motivated to go above and beyond more. And lastly I would like to make a difference, I enjoy helping others and working with others. I want to put my stamp in the work world. The values that are most important to me I would say having free time with my family and friends, being at a company I can grow with, and have a passion for what I do. Its important for me to have free time to spend with my family and friends because I don't think world needs to take up all your time. I will go above and beyond my work duties if needed, but to a certain extent. I want to have the energy to spend time with my loved ones. Being at a company that I can grow with is important to me because I want to have the opportunity to do the best of my capabilities. It can be boring being at one position forever when you know there is better. Its one of my career goals to move up in the company I end up with. And lastly having a passion for what I do is important because I want to enjoy my work. I don't want to be miserable ...
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