...http://altohio.com/mirror-traffic Mirror Traffic, the fifth release from Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks is the glorious distillation of the S.M. oeuvre. Produced by Beck Hanson, the album maintains the lanky looseness of former Jicks-backed offerings even as its songs are condensed down to their respective essences—several tracks clock in at less than three minutes, a stark contrast to previous records where 10-minute guitar odysseys were becoming common. Much like Bob Dylan’s twenty-first century output, Mirror Traffic digs through the past to repurpose musical styles, from psychedelic LA country to first-wave British punk, twisting them into new but familiar shapes. Beck’s role as producer seems split between tightening up the performances and curating the palette of stylistic overlays drawn from the Rock History vault. On “Long Hard Book,” reverb-soaked slide guitar evoke desert midnight, while the chorus’s pedal steel pairs with Joanna Bolme’s spot-on Emmy Lou Harris impression to create an afterimage of some long-lost Grievous Angel outtake, until a fuzzed-out guitar outro pulls the listener back into unmistakably Malkmusian territory. “Tune Grief” is the song the Buzzcocks might’ve recorded if they’d grown up in southern California, a short punchy track complete with single-note guitar solo and beach-bright backing vocals. All of Mirror Traffic’s influences have surfaced in Malkmus’ previous work, from Watery, Domestic onward, but here, arguably benefitting from its...
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...Tutor marked assignment 1 1. Possible reasons for Petra’s ill-health: She is working really long hours; she is also working on Saturday. No one explained to her anything about her job, so she has to find out everything by herself. She doesn’t communicate with someone in the company and feels ignored by everyone. 2. She might feel loss of appetite, because she is always busy and doesn’t have time for lunch or dinner. She can have a migraine, because she is always thinking about her work, and she has to find out how to do everything on her own, so she has to be much stressed. Also she might have stomach cramps, because she doesn’t eat a lot, because of the lack of time. And she doesn’t have a proper food routine, when exactly she is having lunch or dinner. She might be shaking all the time, because she can’t handle everything what she has to do. 3. She should start working less and don’t work on Saturdays. Also she should ask someone to explain her about her job. She doesn’t speak with anyone, but at least she could ask her employer to explain about things. Or she could try to communicate with someone. 4. Her employer should introduce her to all the staff, that she wouldn’t feel isolated. Also he supposed to train her on her work and show her how to do everything. Because once she is trained maybe she can cope with her job and spend less time at work. Of course employer should tell her that she can work just 5 days per week and just 8 hours per day. He shouldn’t...
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...Carlton Davis A miscommunication that I had was one day a work when my office supervisor gave me some charts to process. By process I mean I had to put the charts in the system and fill out the insurance information for billing then schedule them to get them to come in and pick up their medical equipment. So when he asks me to do them I figured that what he meant. He wasn’t clear and I assumed we were both wrong in the situation. So I completely did full processing and I created double work for both of us. Simple clarification on my part would resolve all these issues. Another miscommunication that at I had recently at work I where my schedule is basically a set schedule, is has been for a very long time. So it was really no need for me to for me to check the schedule. So one day in particular a Wednesday I was on the schedule and I never work on Wednesdays. So it was if I was a no showing no call but that’s never me or my motive. As I come to work the next day I was ask what happen and I explained myself, the manager was very understanding. Reason being is because she failed to communicate to the person who was now doing the schedules the way she use to do them. Also that I was not the only one who had this issue and a lot of my coworker’s schedules were messed up. So the best way to solve the issue what I do every week now is take it down and make a copy of...
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...Memo To: Ms. Boyce, Chief Executive Officer From: Student, Personnel Management Consultant Subject: Karen Carlin Case Study: Issue Analysis and Proposed Solutions Date: 21 October 2010 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this memo is to analyze and propose solutions for the issues Karen Carlin faces as she takes on the supervisor role for the schedule typist department of Hepplewhite & Boyce. The three issues to be analyzed are (1) lack of productivity, (2) insubordination and abuse of company resources, and (3) staff mismanagement. First, the problems will be defined and probable causes discussed. Then, recommendations will be made to resolve these issues. DEFINITION OF PROBLEMS AND PROBABLE CAUSES The problems identified in this memo are ones Hepplewhite & Boyce can easily resolve with a few simple actions. Doing so will not only be good for the company but will be good for the employees as well. The end goals should be as follows: (1)Increased productivity within the schedule typist department. (2)An end to the insubordination and abuse of company resources. (3)Improved management of the schedule typist staff. The issues within the department will be explained in further detail next. Lack of productivity The first issue within the schedule typist department of Hepplewhite & Boyce is a lack of productivity on the part of two of the employees, Pat and Pauline. In order to do the least amount of work possible, Pat and Pauline are purposely not updating...
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...Case 4 ARMS: Executive Brief Issues with old procurement system? • The high number of steps involved in the whole process. • High number of vendors which makes choosing the best vendor difficult. • There is issue of standardization in the issuance methods. • All the departments need to have knowledge of all the seven methods irrespective of the method used in their department, which is not feasible and time consuming. • There is an issue of re-work in the handling of purchase documents. How is new system designed to address each issue? • The new system helps in identifying the vendors from huge pool of vendors • The requisition status can be tracked by the ARMS which shows the real time data. • The system has introduced the procurement card system which is helpful in emergency situations • The new system has streamlined the invoice system. Issues with new system? • The ARMS cannot differentiate between vendor’s billing and shipping billing address. • Sometimes the invoice order gets matched up with billing order. Recommendations to resolve issues? • Initially the issue of matching shipping and billing order needs to be studied properly . • Take or employ IT specialist in the whole process system , in order to fix any bugs in the system Should the consultants be fired? • I feel the consultants should not be fired and they can learn from their previous mistakes and improve upon...
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...1. Identify the Ethical Issue in the case? Ethical issues typically arise because of conflicts among individuals' personal they work, and those of the society in which they live.The business environment presents many ethical conflicts. A company's efforts to attain its organizational objectives may collide with its employees' endeavors to achieve their own personal objectives. 2. Assume you are Carla. Discuss your options and what the consequences of each option might be? Yes, because even though I have a case too, I can easily handle the situation because I’m the first one who accuse him and his case is better than my case. 3. Assumeyou areJack.Discussyour options? No, because my case is better than Carla’s case. 4. Discuss any additional information you feel you need before making your decision? Because ethical issues often emerge from conflict, it is useful to examine the causes of ethical conflict. Business managers and employees often experience some tension between their own ethical beliefs and their obligations to the organizations in which they work. Callado, Ma. Kathleene M. BSBA-MA4 1. Identify the Ethical Issue in the case? Ethical issues typically arise because of conflicts among individuals' personal they work,. Similarly, consumers' desire for safe and quality products may conflict with manufacturers' desire to earn adequate profits. A manager's wish to hire specific employees that he or she likes may be at odds,with the organization's...
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...oward case stu“What do we do with Howard?” Synopsis: Tad Pierson had recently been appointed as a project engineer. As project engineer for one of Agrigreen’s plants, he is responsible for the operation of the plant surveying group. For some time now Tad had been aware of some performance, safety, and conflicts with personnel within the group. These issues appear to be escalating in frequency and are causing Tad concern regarding the safety of the employees, the production schedules, and possible actions that he might need to take. Agrigreen, Inc. is a company that manufactures a verity of agricultural fertilizer. With plants located in the western United States and Canada, Agrigreen employs certified surveyors to ensure quality and safety of each project. Eighteen years ago, Agrigreen’s survey crew was composed of part-time drafting personnel or project engineers. Howard Lineberry, a lead surveyor had been employed with Agrigreen for eighteen years. Over his tenure he had been supervised by five different managers, and had three surveyor’s helpers. Howard’s work over the years has caused multiple safety and production issues. He has also had conflicts with the engineering staff, his managers, and almost everyone he worked with. Mel Cutler, a surveyor’s helper, after being employed by the company for only a few years was assigned to assist Howard. Five years into this assignment, Mel began to notice problems due to Howard’s note keeping method. These problems...
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...Challenges this semester This semester I will face many challenges this semester while in School. The issues I will be faced with are my schedule, getting good grades this semester, debit-financial hardships, and my health issues. The first challenge is my schedule because I am working two jobs, school and trying to study 25 hours a week. One Job is twenty hours a week the second job is about 12 but if there are events it could be more like this last weekend where I work 9 hours Saturday and 8 hours Saturday. The first Job is at Grand Canyon University which I work in the facilities as an assistant, and the Second Job is at my church, Trinity Bible Church. I am trying to study 25 hours a week and I have not been able to do that. I am working on making a weekly schedule on excel to get it figure out. The second challenge is my financial issues. I have a lot of debit that I am trying to get paid off. I also found out Friday that the route cannel I need is not covered and the total cost for the route cannel is 1,300 which I can do a monthly payment plan for but it requires a down payment I am having to wait for that to take care of it. The third challenge is my health issues which are pain and diarrhea. I have had lots of test done and there is no indications into why I am having the pain and diarrhea. This semester I am facing many challenges and Philippians 4:13 is what I am living by right now which says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens...
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...1. What are the major issues in this case? What should Elizabeth Ryan do? The major issues of the case are employee dissatisfaction, hygiene, employee conflict, poor management, interpersonal relations and customer dissatisfaction. It can be clearly seen from the major issues why this particular clinic is not doing well. Elizabeth Ryan needs to change and organize the clinic operations. The management structure is not well defined, the first thing Elizabeth Ryan in management change should do is to define and properly state the formal chain of command between different levels of authority, for example based on experience the senior and junior technicians role can be established. She needs to revamp the clinic’s marketing strategies and start advertising its services. Running a brand solely on word to mouth marketing is not effective as well as efficient. One of the difficult responsibility she needs to deal with is her problem employee Moore, which is leading to productivity issue, morale problems, poor quality of treatment and customer dissatisfaction, which is turning out to be the most pressing issue of all and it is also clear that it will be impossible to go ahead with other changes until this one is dealt with. Elizabeth Ryan will have to raise her employee Gulford’s morale, as she is the one who is handling all the heavy workload. By resolving the employee conflict above, she can improve the work environment and raise the clinic’s performance and ultimately customer...
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...Many issues arise when working in groups. Initially, many people do not like working in groups, but on the other hand there are people who like working in group. Group produces quality work it increases creativity so one should think many times before working in a group. Some people will agree and some will have difference in opinion which is a healthy thing in groups, but too much is harmful. The issues that I have faced with others were on distribution of work and people usually come late for meetings which is waste of time. Dividing equal amount of work to the members of the group was difficult to deal with. When people come late for meetings, things get delayed and those who are punctual they have to wait for those who come late. I have issue when people try to put their point first and they ignore what others have to say, this is where the purpose of groups are ineffective. Some people are freeloaders which increase the workload on others which also decreases the quality of work. Other factors which influence the groups are when people arrive at group unprepared, large number of people working in group will lead to more distractions, people living in distance. Not being regular in groups is also a major issue, if one member of the group is getting absent on regular basis it affects the effectiveness of group study and because of one person other member of the group suffer. In groups, there might be time when any of the members cannot fulfill his commitment because of his...
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...“What do we do with Howard?” Synopsis: Tad Pierson had recently been appointed as a project engineer. As project engineer for one of Agrigreen’s plants, he is responsible for the operation of the plant surveying group. For some time now Tad had been aware of some performance, safety, and conflicts with personnel within the group. These issues appear to be escalating in frequency and are causing Tad concern regarding the safety of the employees, the production schedules, and possible actions that he might need to take. Agrigreen, Inc. is a company that manufactures a verity of agricultural fertilizer. With plants located in the western United States and Canada, Agrigreen employs certified surveyors to ensure quality and safety of each project. Eighteen years ago, Agrigreen’s survey crew was composed of part-time drafting personnel or project engineers. Howard Lineberry, a lead surveyor had been employed with Agrigreen for eighteen years. Over his tenure he had been supervised by five different managers, and had three surveyor’s helpers. Howard’s work over the years has caused multiple safety and production issues. He has also had conflicts with the engineering staff, his managers, and almost everyone he worked with. Mel Cutler, a surveyor’s helper, after being employed by the company for only a few years was assigned to assist Howard. Five years into this assignment, Mel began to notice problems due to Howard’s note keeping method. These problems contributed to...
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...• Behavior o Understand the behavior required to be a trusted advisor • Methodologies o Learn methods used by top-tier management consulting firms • A logical and structured method for framing issues to help the client understand their key dilemma • A systematic way to build a comprehensive work plan to address the client issue • Techniques for data collection and research methods to get quality data outputs to complete the work plan • Proven method for structuring simple but high impact logical communications around key messages to build a compelling case for action • Team Work o Develop skills to be a valuable team member • Figure out company for tomorrow • SCQ Template o What is the question? o Most consultants solve unstructured questions • SCQ- Situation, Complication, Question o Situation • A non-controversial description of conditions when they were stable o Complication • What altered the stable situation and created the problem o ? • Questions raised by complication • Can Samsung be an innovative company and own the space of space Notes 9/26 • Situation o A non-controversial description • Complication o A • Question o • Restate the key issue in a yes/no format • Now we will do an issue Analysis Work Plan 1. Part 1 a. Indentify Sub-Question b. Sort and group c. Build issues Tree d. Test for MECE e. List tasks for getting evidence 2. Work Plan Step by Step process a. Rotate issues tree 90 degrees b. Determine Time and...
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...Challenges I face this semester at Grand Canyon University This semester I will face many challenges this semester while in School. The issues I think I will be faced with are my schedule, getting good grades this semester, debit and my health issues. The first challenge is my schedule is very busy with school, working two jobs and studying. I am working two Jobs. One Job is twenty hours a week the second job is about 12 but if there are events it could be more like this last weekend I work 9 hours Saturday and 8 hours Saturday. I am trying to study 25 hours a week and I have not been able to do that. I am working on making a weekly schedule on excel to get it figure out. The second challenge is my financial issues. I have a lot of debit that I am trying to get paid off. I also found out Friday that the route cannel I need is not covered and the total cost for the route cannel is 1,300 which I can do a monthly payment plan for but it requires a down payment I am having to wait for that to take care of it. The third challenge is my health issues which are pain and diarrhea. I have had lots of test done and there is no indications into why I am having the pain and diarrhea. This semester I am facing many challenges and Philippians 4:13 is what I am living by right now which says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens...
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...Amanda Preston Tracy Tenson Comp 105 February 10, 2014 The Chase At a first look Annie Dillard’s, “The Chase” is an ordinary tale of children being children. It tells an incident from Dillard’s childhood when she was chased by a man after hitting his car with a snowball. Dillard’s purpose is to convey that even though it is fast paced, the exciting moments in life can be remembered ages after. Dillard begins her story of the day she was chased by studying the details that led to the day of the chase. Dillard describes the strategies that she has learned by playing football. These strategies toughened her up both physically and mentally. Dillard says all or nothing, to signify the skills required to play football. She continues to use diction such as wholeheartedly, body and soul, fearlessly, fate, to stress the seriousness of her actions. Dillard’s use of vivid details allows her to illustrate the sport in her mind. She says you would get kicked in the face while the kid got away, which makes the readers think of such pain. Dillard continues to give the reader imagery and details. She describes the setting with the six inches of snow. The author continues to describe her friends- the Fahey brothers, Chickie McBride, Billy Paul, and Mackie Kean are described as dark and furious, grew up skinny, knowing and skilled. These descriptions allow the reader to identify and imagine the characters. Also, Dillard describes the setting using descriptions. “The tracks left by the...
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...Issues VS Personalities: One recent situation from my life that I feel is a good example of this was a business dealing between my boss and a company we sub-contract for. The issue was that we had done about a million dollars worth of work for them but they hadn’t pain my boss for the work. My boss, with his strong personality, stopped all work until they could come to a payment agreement. The owners of the other company had the same type of personality as my boss so the payment arrangement wasn’t an easy thing to agree upon between the two parties. Once the two came to realize that it was in the best interest of both the parties, an agreement was made and the payment issues were cleared. Interests VS Positions: Again, the same situation from above would pertain to this as well. The interest of my boss was getting the money that was owed to him. The interest of the contractor we were doing work for was continuing the work without coming to a repayment agreement first. Once the discussions started, they both soon realized that if they came to an agreement, both of their interests could be served. If they did not, they would both lose the contract and it wouldn’t matter what each of their positions on the matter were. Options VS Proposals: Pertaining to the above situation, the options of my boss were to either pay him his money or he was shutting the job down until that happened. After hearing my boss’s options, the contractor came to him with different proposals to try to reach...
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