...Stamps Group topic: Brainstorming In today’s session, group members learned a core skill “Brainstorming”, and gained an understanding about how brainstorming can lead to making better choices. PO Attended the group on time and had a moderate level of participation in group. PO demonstrated an understanding of the topic by completing the payoff matrix and brainstormed the benefits of two behaviors that he is working on to make a change. Response to treatment appears to be positive, willingly participated in the group discussion. PO brainstormed on how to deal with his anger issues, stated “I let a lot of things to get to me, but I am working on myself every day to be a better person by taking advice from my authority figures and think positive....
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...Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment* Jeffrey B. Liebman Erzo F.P. Luttmer September 28, 2010 Abstract This paper presents the results of a field experiment in which a random subsample of older workers was given information about key Social Security provisions, while a control group was not. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to affect individual behavior using a relatively inexpensive informational intervention about the provisions of a public program and to explore what mechanisms underlie the behavior change. We find that our relatively mild intervention (sending an informational brochure and an invitation to a webtutorial) significantly increased labor force participation one year later and that this effect is driven by female subjects. The information intervention increased the perceived returns to working longer, especially among female respondents, which suggests that the behavioral response can be attributed at least in part to updated information about Social Security. Key words: Social Security Incentives; Field Experiment; Labor Force Participation; Knowledge; Expectations; Retirement; Benefit Claim Age, Earnings Test. * Liebman: Harvard Kennedy School and NBER. Luttmer: Economics Department at Dartmouth College, and NBER. Corresponding author: Erzo Luttmer, Erzo.FP.Luttmer@Dartmouth.Edu. We thank John Geanakoplos, David Laibson, Annamaria Lusardi, Brigitte Madrian, Susann Rohwedder, and Stephen...
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...Benefits and drawbacks of groups Lacrisa Johnson XBCOM/275 March 9,2014 There are several benefits and drawbacks of working in a group environment. When working within a group, the collaborated effort of a cohesive team will produce effective results. That effort is called teamwork. According to dictionary .com, teamwork is the cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group or person’s acting together as a team or in the interest of a common cause (2014). It is beneficial to understand the working relationships of group members, know the task and be able to identify possible obstacles. For example, some of the benefits of working in a group is productivity, reliability and unbiased. The productivity includes the skill levels and the abundance of resources that have now become available. The more individuals in the group equal an increased skill level. Reliability is an advantage because if one member is unable to manage their portion of the workload, the group will survive. Also it will be increasingly difficult to be bias within the group. The thoughts, opinions and ideas of others will be recognized. On the other hand, there are relevant drawbacks associated with working in groups. Individual thinking, time consumption and...
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...P1 Describe different types of teams and the benefits of teams for an organization What is meant by the term teams? There are multiple ways to describe the term team, which involve a group of people with different skills and tasks, work together on common project, services or goals fusing skills together for mutual support. Teams operate with a high degree of independence, sharing authority and responsibility of self-management working towards a common goal and shared rewards. A team becomes more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy which generates a performance greater than the sum of the performance of its individual members. • Formal Formal teams or groups are created deliberately by managers and charged with carrying out specific tasks to help the organization achieve its goals. The most prevalent type of formal group is the command team, which includes a manager and all employees who report to that manager. In some organizations that want to de-emphasize hierarchy, the titles may change. For instance, at MBA (basketball), the managers of command teams are called “coaches” and the team members are called associates. The benefit of a formal team is that the organizational structure clearly to the superior subordinate relationship such as team players report and get told what’s what by the coach. • Informal An informal team work group is a group formed by employees of an organization that is created under no directive...
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...the United States and it is expected to take a firm stand on its commitment to ethical and social responsibilities. The company is committed to taking social and environmental responsibilities and conducting its business ethically. Apple suppliers ensure social and ethical responsibilities through different approaches. First, it provides safe and humanistic working condition for all the workers in the organization. To ensure this there are the set code for the company. There is the code on labor and human right, which states that all the workers in the apple group deserve to be treated fairly and ethically. They should also be treated with respect and utmost dignity ensuring maintenance of the highest standards of human right. The company educates the workers on their rights ensuring that they are aware of them and cannot be violated. On the issue of health and safety of workers, the Apple group considers the health and the safety of its workers important. In ensuring this scenario, a safe working environment is provided and safety practices adopted. The workers in the company have the right to oppose working if the working conditions are not safe. For instance, the company is supposed to give the worker with protective equipments. There is also constant education on the safety measures in the company and provision of social amenities. The organization I also committed to protection of the environment by using environmentally friendly materials, managing their waste properly,...
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...INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HCM VIETNAM NATIONALUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH REPORT JOB SATISFACTION IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY- BAGS AND SHOES Instructor: DR. Mai Ngoc Khuong GROUP 6 - MONDAY CLASS 1 ABSTRACT 3 I. INTRODUCTION II. LITERATURE REVIEW III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IV. RESEARCH FINDINGS 1. Descriptive Analaysis 2. ANOVA 3. Multiple Regression V, DISCUSSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Discussions 2. Recommendations REFERENCES 5 7-9 11 13-34 36-42 43 2 ABSTRACT It has been long acknowledged that human resource is very vital to the development of a company, especially for the industries that require a large quantity of labors like textile industry as well as bags and shoes industry. Based on statistical data from Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, textile industry of Vietnam has more than 2 million workers, accounting for 24% industrial labor. In dealing with a large workforce like this, a strategic plan of human resource management is very important for enterprises to keep everything go smoothly, increase productivity and earn profit. One of the key defining good human resource management is whether the company can make its staffs feel satisfied with their job or not. The data from some previous researches have shown that job dissatisfaction is increasing in the work force. Due to the research done by CareerBuilder, more employees are feeling disappointed, and this number has risen by 20% in the last 2 years. The result...
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...enable employees to have full access to the organization resources off-site (Basel, 2007). Organizations with higher mobility are able to focus on their key competencies, through transformed business strategies and stimulus offered by mobility. To enable employees reap maximum benefits from mobility companies have formulated mobile strategies (Cerra, Easterwood, & Power, 2013). Both the enterprise and employees benefit when the new level of communication achieved, but also there are disadvantages that are borne by both the enterprise and employees. Employees are the main drivers when it comes to an organization moving to be mobile. This paper is set to examine the advantages and disadvantages of an organization moving to mobile enterprise by assessing how the employees and the employer are affected. Advantages of an organization moving into mobile enterprise solutions Business mobility community consists of a large and diverse range of users who can be classified into three main groups namely; casual users, professional users and transactional users. Group dynamics, determine how far each employee uses business mobility in their working lives and thus benefits and disadvantages differ from one group to the other (Sathyan, Narayanan, Narayan, & Shibu, 2013). At the basic level of usage are the Casual users who mainly use business applications on mobile...
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...An Analysis on the Effects of Group Performance Tasks to Grade 9 Students by Hanna Coleen G. Malayao Grade 10 - Diego Mojica St. Dominic College – Basic Education A (Draft) Research Paper submitted to Mr. Poccholo M. Rudio November 4, 2015 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Introductory paragraphs A school or institution is built to provide learning and good education to students and prepare them for their future. Parents send their children in school to be knowledgeable on everything they see and do and enjoy life while learning. According to Albert Einstein, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” It only means that education shouldn’t focus on teaching facts instead students should be learning while interacting with one another. Educating students is done by many ways, it may be by visual aids that will let the students view a clearer idea on the topic, it may also be by means of technology which is very popular nowadays especially to the present generation. But above all this, there’s this one way of educating students that would never get old, it is interacting students with other people by grouping them to work on a specific matter or task. This process would develop students to become sociable as they grew up and letting them share their opinion and ideas. It would help as well to engage and connect students with their skills and values while learning competently. Researcher reports that students learn best when they are actively involved...
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...A chain is just as strong as its weakest link. A group is just as strong as its weakest member. The negative of working in a team outweigh the positives of working in a group. Working alone is better than working in a team because it is easier to manage, also because you won’t need to compromise your own ideas for others. Working alone, rather than in a team allows for easy management of the group. One reason why management is easier is because you have only yourself to manage. You can control what you do, when you do it, and the effort you put in. For example, this removes the constant need to get updated on your group members whilst working on a project. Another reason why working alone is better than working with others is because you are...
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...Advanced Diploma in Human Resource Management Compensation and Benefits HRM541 Supervision by: Dr. Padmakumar Ram Saad AbuRiyah 1302487 Fall 2013 Your Turn; Job Evaluation at Whole Foods; 153 Whole Foods Market, Inc. Who are we? Well, we seek out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintain the strictest quality standards in the industry, and have an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture. Whole Foods Market has more than 350 retail and non-retail locations in the US, Canada and UK. Core Values Selling The Highest Quality Natural And Organic Products Satisfying And Delighting Customers Supporting Team Members Excellence And Happiness Creating Wealth Through Profits And Growth Serve And Support Local And Global Communities Practice And Advance Environmental Stewardship Create Ongoing Win-Win Partnerships With Our Suppliers Promote The Health Of Our Stakeholders Through Healthy Eating Education Job Structure is a layout that defines what a particular career entails. The structure has well defined job descriptions of a particular job, responsibilities, qualifications, and salary structure and performance matrix. Job Evaluation is a formal and systematic approach to analyzing jobs and categorizing them in regard to their relative worth in an organization. Job Evaluation Methods Ranking: simply orders the job description from highest to lowest based on a global definition of relative value or contribution to the...
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...they are handling. To understand group decision a person must know the group decision process that they have to do. Then they must see the experience one successful side, of team decision making and the unsuccessful side of team decision making. Lastly, the factors affected the group’s effectiveness in general. By doing this, will help to understand fully group decision making and how it can be used personally and also business-wise to obtain success with a method as such. The decision process The team first has to understand and define the opportunity or the dilemma that is a stage of obtaining information, deliberating, to indicate, approximately, why the decision has also reached what it will achieve with it. This part of the process, of group decision making there are three mistakes that happen. This first step with decision-making is that the teams may describe the dilemma in a broader way. The next thing they do is team’s focal point on the symptom, with the dilemma, but not the reason the problem happens. Lastly, the teams might not pick the right dilemma to focus on in the matter. The next step in the process of group decision making is also discovering analyzing the alternative course of action. This stage in the group where the likely alternative course of action also their expected consequences, will assess to see the costs also the benefits they will have on the stage the group must acknowledge what, they truly...
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...members/shareholders, increasing employee costs, and protests against Calleeta’s offshore facilities due to the growing concern of working conditions. First, board members and investors are not supporting Jan or her proposal due to a poor return on investment. Board members are concerned about the rapid increase of employee cost the company is incurring. Calletta is incurring a 12% cost increase annually compared to an industry average of just 4% (Kavanagh & Thite, 2009). There will continue to be a lack of support if Jan is unable to increase the company’s revenue and return on investment. Another key business issue is board members demanding that Jan seek ways to decrease employee cost before approving any future plans. Employee cost consists of things such as recruiting cost, income, training, and benefits. As a result, Jan is forced to choose between HR Vice-President John Nosmas practices or the board, both who affect her maneuvering power for future plans. John Nosmas defends his practice of paying higher wages along with providing expensive benefit programs because he believes in hiring the best employees. He feels that these practices help with recruitment and retention. Lastly, as CEO Jan is faced with the growing concerns over working conditions in their foreign facilities which are being targeted by activists accusing the company of inhumane working conditions. The key issues discussed are challenges that must be overcome if Jan hopes to become the leader in RFID products...
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...is the extent of which people hopes, desires, expectation about the employment he or she is engaged in fulfilled. If I had a choice of either less money but interesting work or higher pay but boring job, then I would choose less money but interesting work. This is because I will feel happy working, confident and I will also fell safe as I will have met new people who are confident, hardworking they will give me confidence and feel safe. They will also make me feel like I don’t have to leave as I won’t be working in an unsafe working environment. However, if I was to work in a highly paid with a boring job then I would feel very unhappy as the job would have anything interesting to do. I would also feel like I would be forced to do work, bored, feel agitated to leave as I could be feeling like I would be pushed around because of the amount of money that I get paid. Explain teamwork and the benefits of team working. A team is a group of people who are working towards then same goal that is a combined of a group, especially when efficient. Teamwork in the workplace involves co-operation among employers. This co-operation is usually for the sake of a common goal that the entire team is working towards. It also involves relationships. The relationships that can develop between employee and employer. Teamwork can’t exist unless there is relational components even if it’s small component. Teamwork also involves learning from others, by having relationship that exist in the business...
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...For many years now many companies and even schools have used teams or groups to balance out each others weaknesses and strengths. Returning to the workplace, it is estimated that between 70 and 82 percent of U.S. companies use the team concept, making teamwork skills one of the most commonly required skills in the work environment. There are many benefits to working in teams as most corporations are adapting to this method. Team work is even used in professional sports being a successful baseball pitcher can’t be accomplished without the help of a catcher or even an outfield team to help catch fly balls. A winning team is a team effort and cannot be accomplished by just one person. In a declining economy as we are facing now, times are tougher and harder than they have ever been and for many corporations the benefits of team work and there members participating roles are more crucial now then ever. Team work is a group or a team working together towards a common goal. The essence of teamwork is to create a product through a collective effort that exceeds the quality of any individual endeavor or the collective efforts of several individuals. Each team member has and plays an important role in working together as a team, such as setting goals, and what is expected of each team member to reach those goals, clarifying each members role, communication with each other by phone, email, and or at weekly meetings. One important role to any team is the team leader. Having a team...
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...Working rights Charter Nike Sweat shops: Since the 1970s, Nike has been accused of using sweatshops to produce their products. They found cheaper labor in under-developed countries, such as Vietnam, China etc. After workers there asked for higher wages, more rights and other benefits. The factories moved to different locations to continue giving workers the minimum wage and operate at a low cost. Nike denied the criticism throughout the 1990s. In 2001, Nike director Todd McKean quoted in an interview that technically they did ‘not own’ the factories and that they have ‘no control’ of what happens in those factories. These accusations went so far when Nike pulled out of contracts when Activist groups wanted to place a code of conduct. So Nike would monitor their working conditions in factories where the products are made. There are currently many activist groups protesting against Nike. Causing much anger through students, teachers, investors and workers etc. The man behind the committing of ending Nike’s injustice is Jim Keady. Jim Keady was the founder of an activist group called ‘Team Sweat’. It is initially one of the largest groups that protest against Nike. He himself travelled to Indonesia to live among Nike Factory workers. Surviving on just $1.25 per day. The employees were poor people looking for any income. The global alliance for workers and communities showed survey results saying, 70% of the workers in Thailand were satisfied with their supervisors and...
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