...1) Before describing Southwest Airline’s organizational culture, it is important to know what is meant by this term. Organizational culture refers to the norms and values of an organization, including the vision shared by its members. At Southwest, their culture was lived first and foremost through their employees who they valued dearly. Southwest renamed human resources “The People Department” because they understood that their people are their competitive advantage and most important resource. Their family spirit could be seen in many ways; for example, there is the catastrophe fund in which voluntary contributions are made for Southwest employees who need help. Their culture promotes informal teamwork and employees routinely help each other out. In order to ensure they have the right people to preserve this culture, Southwest places great importance on recruiting the right people. As Ann Rhoades (the Vice President of People) noted, “If they say ‘I’ too much in the interview, they don’t get hired.” This displays how much of a critical role, teamwork plays at Southwest. In addition, Southwest looks for people who are creative as they value those that will constantly be innovators. For instance, as part of the interview process, applicants are given crayons to draw a picture that tells a story of their life; Southwest wants people who think outside the box. Furthermore, Southwest’s relaxed management style ensures that work is always a fun place to be. Kelleher believes that...
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...investigate the trajectory of a small ball as it rolls off a surface which is inclined to the horizontal Objective: * To investigate the trajectory of a motion in two dimensions. Apparatus and Materials: 1. Ramp 2. Wooden block 3. Pendulum bob 4. Plumb line 5. Steel ball 6. Wooden board 7. Carbon paper 8. Meter rule 9. Figure 4-1 Plasticine Setup: 1. Set up a ramp at the edge of a bench as shown in Figure 4-1. 2. Suspend a plumb-line from the edge of the bench as shown in Figure 4-2. 3. Mount a wooden board horizontally using two clamps so that the board is situated somewhere below the base of the ramp. 4. Place a sheet of blank paper on top of the board. 5. Place a piece of carbon paper on top of the blank paper. The ink-side of the carbon paper should be facing down. 6. When a ball is released at the top of the ramp, the ball will travel through a trajectory as shown in Figure 4-2. Figure 4-2 Theory: Let: g = 9.8 ms-2 u = speed of the ball as it leaves the ramp k = constant y = vertical distance (between the bottom of the ramp and the top of the board) x = horizontal distance (between the plumb-line and the mark on the paper) h = height of release of ball from the height of the bottom of the ramp. θ = angle the ramp makes with the horizontal (table surface) For a two-dimensional motion under gravity, taking downwards as the +ve direction, Horizontal...
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...The leadership characteristics that helped Southwest Airlines move forward is the responsibility of the leader. Responsible leadership is defined as making business decisions that, upon the interests of the shareholders and also other stakeholders, for example employees, customers, suppliers, the context as well as the future generations (Definition of responsible leadership, n.d). From the text showed that the leader have the responsibility on his staff, he is caring his staff. The way to prove my point is three days after 9/11, James Parker announced that the company would be keeping all of its employees when the ramifications of the shutdown forced other airlines to cut staff. When he promised to keep all of its employees, the employees do not worry whether when their last day to work is, so the task which he delegated to employees can be doing well. And the employees created the loyalty to the company due to this action. Even when the company wanted to help reduce the company’s workforce and cuts cost, it also without laying off its employees but it was offering voluntary buyout packages to all employees who were willing to retire early. Besides that, encouragement also is another leadership characteristic of the leader of Southwest Airline. The encouragement in leadership is defined as the action of motivating other people with the whole new courage, spirit, hope, support or confidence (Jeremiah, 2005). The power of encouragement in leadership is very unique and powerful...
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...Southwest Airlines Herb Kelleher is the founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines (SWA). He went to Texas to create a new airline more than three decades ago and became a legend (“Southwest succession,” 2002). Kelleher suffered a health scare in 1999; he decided to name his successor and stunned everyone by appointing a man and woman team to run the major airline (“Southwest succession,” 2002). They became a dual management team. Jim Parker became the chief executive and vice president who serves as the brains of the operation with responsibility for business structure. Colleen Barrett is the heart of SWA where she serves as the president and chief operating officer who oversees the culture (“Southwest succession,” 2002). SWA defines its culture as altruism, listening intently, leading with a servant’s heart and exhibits an exciting-loving and fun approach, (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). Barrett stimulates the image, allows workers at each level to grow into family, prototypes the way of servant leadership, acknowledges works well done and inspires the souls of 32,000 SWA employees (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). Barrett created the Culture Committee, whose goal is to support the Southwest spirit and values throughout the company; to enhance it and assist the improvement in which the committee previously subsists (McGee-Cooper, Trammell, & Looper, 2008). The members who serve on this committee do it voluntarily. They put in the time willingly...
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...Jamaicáról Jamaica egy a Karib-térségben elhelyezkedő, a Nagy-Antillák szigetcsoporthoz tartozó 234 km hosszú és 80 km széles szigetország. A Közép-Amerikai szárazföldtől 680 km-re és Kubától 145 km-re, délre, Hispanolia szigetétől pedig, ahol a Dominikai Köztársaság és Haiti található, 190 km-re, nyugatra fekszik a Karib-tengeren. Jamaica népessége igen sokszínű. Ebből a sokszínűségből adódik az ország mottójának jelentése: „Out of many, one people” – tehát a soknemzetiségű emberből álló népesség a szigeten, egy nemzetté vált. Jamaica zászlójának színei is jelentést hordoznak. A fekete szín szimbolizálja a jamaicaiak erejét és kreativitását, az sárga szín utal a napfényre és az ország gazdagságára, a zöld pedig a gazdagságra és a jövőre való reményt jeleníti meg. Az szigetet az őslakos, arawak és taíno indiánok nevezték Xaymaca-nak, amelynek jelentése „A Fák és Víz Földje”, valamint „A Források Szigete”. Az elnevezés a száznál is több patakra és folyóra utal, amelyek a sziget belsejében található hegyekből erednek, és a tengerbe futnak. Később a spanyol gyarmatosítás ideje alatt a Santiago nevet kapta az ország. Az ország hivatalos neve a Jamaica, nyelve, pedig az angol lett, miután a sziget angol fennhatóság alá került. Az ország lakossága igen kevert, de túlnyomó többségük az Afrikából, leginkább a spanyolok által elhurcolt rabszolgák leszármazottja, hiszen az eredeti őslakos indiánokat a felfedezők mind kiirtották. Jamaica az amerikai szubkontinens...
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...The New Astrology by SUZANNE WHITE Copyright © 1986 Suzanne White. All rights reserved. 2 Dedication book is dedicated to my mother, Elva Louise McMullen Hoskins, who is gone from this world, but who would have been happy to share this page with my courageous kids, April Daisy White and Autumn Lee White; my brothers, George, Peter and John Hoskins; my niece Pamela Potenza; and my loyal friends Kitti Weissberger, Val Paul Pierotti, Stan Albro, Nathaniel Webster, Jean Valère Pignal, Roselyne Viéllard, Michael Armani, Joseph Stoddart, Couquite Hoffenberg, Jean Louis Besson, Mary Lee Castellani, Paula Alba, Marguerite and Paulette Ratier, Ted and Joan Zimmermann, Scott Weiss, Miekle Blossom, Ina Dellera, Gloria Jones, Marina Vann, Richard and Shiela Lukins, Tony Lees-Johnson, Jane Russell, Jerry and Barbara Littlefield, Michele and Mark Princi, Molly Friedrich, Consuelo and Dick Baehr, Linda Grey, Clarissa and Ed Watson, Francine and John Pascal, Johnny Romero, Lawrence Grant, Irma Kurtz, Gene Dye, Phyllis and Dan Elstein, Richard Klein, Irma Pride Home, Sally Helgesen, Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, Ann Kennerly, David Barclay, John Laupheimer, Yvon Lebihan, Bernard Aubin, Dédé Laqua, Wolfgang Paul, Maria José Desa, Juliette Boisriveaud, Anne Lavaur, and all the others who so dauntlessly stuck by me when I was at my baldest and most afraid. Thanks, of course, to my loving doctors: James Gaston, Richard Cooper, Yves Decroix, Jean-Claude Durand, Michel Soussaline and...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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...10000 quiz questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro 10000 general knowledge questions and answers 10000 general knowledge questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro No Questions Quiz 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Carl and the Passions changed band name to what How many rings on the Olympic flag What colour is vermilion a shade of King Zog ruled which country What colour is Spock's blood Where in your body is your patella Where can you find London bridge today What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule Who was the first man in space What would you do with a Yashmak Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans Which animal lays eggs On television what was Flipper Who's band was The Quarrymen Which was the most successful Grand National horse Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle What is Dick Grayson better known as What was given on the fourth day of Christmas What was Skippy ( on TV ) What does a funambulist do What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog What are bactrians and dromedaries Who played The Fugitive Who was the King of Swing Who was the first man to fly across the channel Who starred as Rocky Balboa In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade Who invented the television Who would use a mashie niblick In the song who killed Cock Robin What do deciduous...
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