...believe when the world about you is filled with songs that say the opposite these days. “Whatever feels right at the moment” is what you hear most often. But when does a broken heart ever “feel” right? When does a “broken” conscience ever let you sleep really peacefully without having to do something distracting to make it go away? Entertainment, addictions, even the approval of the those around you who aren’t really looking through what you’re doing will not eventually make up for what’s missing: real love. The kind of love that only God has made us to want and need in order to feel whole. This love is deep and abiding, encompassing the real passion that its poor substitute tries to get along without in this world. It is relentless in its pursuit of our heart and all the distractions and the false relationships we heap up between us and it show that we cannot get along without it. It won’t let us go in spite of our bad behavior. Why? Because real love is a promise, not a feeling. God created us to express love that way. Expressing anything less, no matter what temporary heights you reach, robs everyone, including yourself. You see, God, made us to be highly motivated to want the promise much more than just the feeling alone. It is the only way to make the whole thing last and get every last best drop of those precious feelings to be had from it! It is the only way to feel safe in our relationships and with ourselves. Break the promise and every thing thereafter is set up to fall...
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...Importance of teamwork 1. Introduction As organisations continue to strive towards competitive advantage and increasingly high performance standards, collaboration and team-oriented project management are increasingly providing the flexibility and innovative potential necessary to excel. Yet in spite of the dynamic characteristics of teams in practice, many organisations fail to recognise the core determinants of a team-oriented framework, instead grouping employees into non-linked, non-dependent, individually-driven models. This group-based approach is distinct from team-specific initiatives and fails to meet the rigorous determinants of dynamism and effectiveness necessary in the modern marketplace. The following sections will draw distinctions between teamwork and group work, highlighting the opportunities associated with team-driven performance. Further, several theoretical models of teamwork will be introduced, demonstrating underlying benefits of optimised team management and goal setting. Through this discussion, a framework of organisational implications will be introduced, focusing on team-generated performance and the importance of effective team outcomes in meeting organisational goals. 2. The Teamwork Paradigm In spite of their seeming interoperability, Fritz (2014:1) emphasises that the terms ‘team’ and ‘group’ hold practical distinctions when represented in the context of enterprise management. A group, in theory, represents three or more individuals who...
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...programs that address issues such as organizational structure and culture, ethical conduct, diversity, and the continuing evolution of the global market. Analyze the leadership style(s) of a senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, etc.) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you. In my previous employment the company functioned under a combination of directive leadership and achievement-oriented leadership styles. Through the immediate manager employees were told exactly what is expected of them by receiving specific guidelines with information on how they were to perform their assigned tasks, they had a daily schedule on what are to be accomplish, and there were standards of performance in place to ensure that each employee followed the standard rules and regulations that governed the department. Also, the immediate manager will get with each employee and set some challenging goals with the understanding that expectations are high and that a significant level of confidence is placed in that individual to assume responsibility for each set goal and that extraordinary efforts will be put forth in order to accomplish them. The Chief Executive Officer of the company at the time of my employment was Ken Lewis. Through regular correspondence from Mr. Lewis the employees was led to believe that the company functioned under a very structured environment through his leadership. It was mandatory of every employee to take and pass annual courses...
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...2 This chapter describes a four-lens model for understanding adult learning theories and provides adult educators and administrators with a useful conceptual framework for working with adult learners in adult degree programs. Adult Learning Theory and the Pursuit of Adult Degrees Richard Kiely, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Janet Truluck Diane Johnson, after home-schooling her three children, knew she needed an official credential to continue to work in the field of elementary education. Facing mandatory retirement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, William Branson enrolled in a master’s program in counseling to assist incarcerated juveniles that he had been dealing with for years. Amy Garcia, a mother of two small children, seeks an online, cohort-based program to provide her the skills and abilities needed to advance her career while meeting family and work demands. Diane, William, and Amy reflect several of the groups that make up the growing number of adults pursuing formal degree programs. The strongest growth in educational participation in the past two to three decades has been in part-time enrollments of students over age twenty-five, in particular, women (University Continuing Education Association, 2002). The population of those over sixty years old in the United States is expected to grow from 45 million in 2000 to more than 91 million in 2030; many are participating in adult degree programs (University Continuing Education Association, 2002). The National Center...
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...The worlds of work and education are changing, and leaders in today’s educational institutions need to determine how to effectively lead in the acquisition, development, and dissemination of information to tomorrow’s workers. Leadership is necessary to bring cohesion to the distance education arena within higher education. Drucker (1998) maintained that in the latter part of the last century, technology resulted in a transformation of the social structure. We saw the “rise and fall of the blue-collar worker” (p. 539), the rise of the industrial worker who gave way to the rise of the knowledge worker, a term unknown prior to 1959 (p. 542). These societal and cultural changes meant leaders were challenged to rethink how they encouraged management, workers, and organizations. If as Drucker (1998, p. 551) claimed, “Knowledge has become the key resource,” ways need to be found to develop and share knowledge. This is the challenge for higher education transformational leaders. A...
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...History Of Forest Hill Community Prepared by George Cottle, Sr. Location Forest Hill Community is situated on the waters of Bradshaw and Spruce Run. Starting at A. L. Campbell's, on Greenbrier River, three miles from Forest Hill and running to J. T. Campbell's, on a line from there including P. M. Garrison's; thence South West to and including W. L. Redmond's; thence North to and including C. G. Ramsey's; and thence Northeast by J. S. Canterberry's and including him to the starting point; it includes twenty-five square miles. It is inhabited by sixty-six families with a population of four hundred. Points of Interest One of the natural wonders of this community is situated on the farm of P. M. Foster, and is known as the "Seven Wonders". This is an immense rock in the shape of an inverted pyramid. It is about thirty feet tall, four by six feet at the base, and about twenty by thirty feet at the top. Tradition tells how it received its name. It is said that a man upon viewing this Wonder, wondered six times how it stood up and one time if it was supported by an oak which grew by the side of the rock. He said, "You are surely a "Seven Wonders". This rock is covered with names and dates. Some of them are more than a hundred years old. Another natural wonder of Forest Hill Community, is known as the "Devil's Den". This is situated on the line between J. H. Rogers and J. T. Canterberry's, and consists of a huge wash basin, writing desk, and a seat. This wonder is of sand stone...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 63 (2005) 436–451 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs Developing creativity, motivation, and self-actualization with learning systems Winslow Burlesonà MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Available online 10 May 2005 Abstract Developing learning experiences that facilitate self-actualization and creativity is among the most important goals of our society in preparation for the future. To facilitate deep understanding of a new concept, to facilitate learning, learners must have the opportunity to develop multiple and flexible perspectives. The process of becoming an expert involves failure, as well as the ability to understand failure and the motivation to move onward. Meta-cognitive awareness and personal strategies can play a role in developing an individual’s ability to persevere through failure, and combat other diluting influences. Awareness and reflective technologies can be instrumental in developing a meta-cognitive ability to make conscious and unconscious decisions about engagement that will ultimately enhance learning, expertise, creativity, and self-actualization. This paper will review diverse perspectives from psychology, engineering, education, and computer science to present opportunities to enhance creativity, motivation, and self-actualization in learning systems. r 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Creativity; Learning systems; Psychology; Failure; Motivation Education...
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...Literature Review: Strategic Management BUSI 600 Business Research Methods Thomas Sheppard Liberty University October12, 2012 Abstract In order to have a successful study, a review of the literature will be undertaken. Then the methods and standards that were used will be addressed, and any questions that are being considered for further research into the area of strategic management will be discussed. From that point, it is vital that conclusions be drawn and recommendations be offered to wrap up the study. Without these components, it is often not clear whether a researcher has a thorough understanding of what the study was designed to do, and it is also not clear if said researcher is certain as to what else should be done in the area and should be questioned when it comes to that particular issue. In short, studies without these components lack completeness and that can make it difficult for anyone in the future to use the study as a jumping off point for similar studies or studies into related issues. The concept of strategic management is one that is highly important to organizations around the world (David, 2009). It involves taking a look at the top management of a company and the resources that management team is using on behalf of the company's owners and in order to show a specific level of performance. The mission, vision, and objectives of the organization must be examined, and it is necessary for them to...
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...Same Sex Marriages Michelle Jones University of Phoenix ENG/215 Cassandra Baker June 5, 2012 Same Sex Marriages Is it okay for the government to make same sex marriages illegal because of their own preference? People of all kind want to get marry someday. To tell couples they cannot get marry because of their sex preference is not fair. Everyone should be allowed to get marry if that is what wants to do. Whether it two men or two women it should not matter. They should have the same opportunity a man and woman have to get marry. “Once society was widely conscious of this population, and had an inkling of its extent, there was no question of reverting to the status quo ante. The knowledge itself had changed the political question. Not only were homosexuals not going back into the closet, but the rest of society could not forget that they exist. And there had been little in the way of a "traditional" approach to something that was beyond the margin of public consciousness. So now, the question arose of how to think about—and act toward—this alarming new population. Should it be included in or excluded from the body politic, and on what terms?”( McCarthy, 2012). Same sex people just want to be trust like everyone else. They want same benefits that other couples get. People have to expect their same sex marriages but it should be reason not to allow them to get marry. It is against the law for them to be against what is right. It is against everything...
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...thoroughly by many theorists to understand how advertising works. Many countries have implemented restrictions in advertising for tobacco and have issued potential future restrictions for alcohol, with the objective that introducing an adverting ban would lower overall consumption. However, Studies analysing the effects of advertising being linked to consumption has led to two separate views on how advertising works and have led some to believe that advertising bans have no effect on overall consumption. The strong theory of advertising supports the belief that advertising has the power to persuade people who may not know of a brand or bought a product before to buy it. Also, that advertising in terms of the strong theory increases consumers knowledge and can change people’s behaviour patterns. It can also in the view of the strong theory of how advertising works increase sales and manipulate consumers through psychological techniques to make them buy a product (Jones, 1998). However in contrast, the views of the weak theory believes that...
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...------------------------------------------------- ASSIGNMENT 4 (5), OPTION 2 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- What particular significance do media systems have for the construction of national identities? How far, if at all, is it possible to have a (sense of) national identity without the media? ------------------------------------------------- Introduction I will argue that national identity is a problematic concept, constructedthrough imagined indicators of unity, as well as through a process of othering. I will look at how national identity is more valuable for political and commercial purposes, than for the development of authentic or peaceful national and internationalcommunities.Furthermore, I will explore howdominant national power influences identity, with education as the foundational cornerstone, andmediaas the toolfor the normalisation and reinforcement of national identity. Debunking the homogeneity of national identity Das and Harindranath write that individuals’ ability to identify themselves through nationality signals a “shared acceptance of the nation-state as a reasonable and ‘natural’ way of organizing social and political life” (2006: p.7). However, the fallibility of the homogeneity that is presupposed to constitute a national identity becomes apparent when examining various related definitions. In the case of nation-states, Smith writes that they must have “a measure...
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...Copyright 1998 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 0022-3514V98/S3.00 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology IW8, Vol. 74, No. 4, 865-877 The Relation Between Perception and Behavior, or How to Win a Game of Trivial Pursuit Ap Dijksterhuis and Ad van Knippenberg University of Nijmegen The authors tested and confirmed the hypothesis that priming a stereotype or trait leads to complex overt behavior in line with this activated stereotype or trait. Specifically, 4 experiments established that priming the stereotype of professors or the trait intelligent enhanced participants' performance on a scale measuring general knowledge. Also, priming the stereotype of soccer hooligans or the trait stupid reduced participants' performance on a general knowledge scale. Results of the experiments revealed (a) that prolonged priming leads to more pronounced behavioral effects and (b) that there is no sign of decay of the effects for at least 15 min. The authors explain their results by claiming that perception has a direct and pervasive impact on overt behavior (cf. J. A. Bargh, M. Chen, & L. Burrows, 1996). Implications for human social behavior are discussed. behavior in line with the activated constructs (see also Carver, Ganellen, Froming, & Chambers, 1983; Neuberg, 1988). For example, priming participants with the stereotype of the elderly made participants walk more slowly than participants who were not primed (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996, Experiment...
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...Business issues and the contexts of human resources Student’s name: University’s name: Author’s note: Executive summary Business issues have been one of the major contexts of HR. This has contributed effectively on organizational development. The major focus of the researcher in this topic will be to assess key features on performance appraisals and other areas of business. The researcher has studied major forces that shape the HR agenda. In order, with Harvard and Ulrich model, the researcher has studied organizational effectiveness on business ethics and accountability positions. Moreover, the researcher has studied core aspects of organizational and HR strategy on business environment and planning attributes. Thus, through SWOT analysis, the researcher has initiated vertical and horizontal aspects of business planning and strategies on major policies and plans. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Identification and analysis of the major forces shaping the HR agenda in the organization (AC 3.1) 4 Examination of HR roles within the organization that contributes to organizational effectiveness, business ethics and accountability (AC 3.2, 3.3, 3.4) 5 Flow of human resource 7 Reward systems 7 Employee influence 7 Work systems 7 HR contribution to design and implementation of organization’s business and HR strategies in describing the techniques and tools required to analyze the business environment on planning purpose (AC 4.1, 4.2, 5.2) 9 Management capability...
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...vindicated democracy and initialized the substratum which would be built upon to become the republic we know today. In the modern-day society we inhabit, the development and subsequent implementation of technology in daily activities has allowed our leaders rapid access to consistently accurate data. This ease of access is a luxury I am certain President Lincoln would have utilized, as he was always probing for more information, a trait congruent with the teachings of Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership and Management at the Warwick Business School, who suggests that the leader’s role with a wicked problem is to ask the right questions rather than provide the right answers. In the film Lincoln, actor Daniel Day-Lewis reaffirms this trait with the line “If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True North?”. The...
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...IRWIN PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE S E R I E S R Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole? R Is Alice a feminist icon? curiouser To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com and WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy. curiouser RICHARD BRIAN DAVIS is an associate professor of philosophy at Tyndale University College and the coeditor of 24 and Philosophy. R I C H A R D B R I A N D AV I S AND PHILOSOPHY Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as a blue caterpillar who smokes a hookah, a cat whose grin remains after its head has faded away, and a White Queen who lives backward and remembers forward? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books and reveals a world rich with philosophical life lessons. Tapping into some of the greatest philosophical minds that ever lived— Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Nietzsche—Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy explores life’s ultimate questions through the eyes of perhaps the most endearing ...
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