...WORK ENVIRONMENT Research Methodology Professor: ROSE Janna By Anand VISHWA Ankur SONKAR Mohnish Rai HANDA Saketh Varma KUCHAMPUDI MIB 35- Group A 1 Travel and Alternatives to Travel in Work Environment 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Sr.No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. TOPIC Introduction to Topic…………………… Literature Review………………………. 2.1. Cost Benefits………………………. 2.2. Accessibility………………………… 2.3. Evolution Of Technology…………… 2.4. Deficiency In Technology…………. 2.5. Stress………………………………… Research Question……………………… Methodology……………………………… Results……………………………………. 5.1. Indian View………………………….. 5.2. Egyptian View………………………. 5.3. Brazilian View………………………. Conclusion……………………………….. References………………………………. Annexes………………………………….. 8.1. Invitation……………………………. 8.2. Questionnaire ……………………… 8.3. Focus Group Transcript…………… Page No. 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 Travel and Alternatives to Travel in Work Environment 2013 1. INTRODUCTION We are trying through this research the possible effective alternatives of travel in a corporate environment, in order to save time that would be spent while travelling as well as to increase one’s working efficiency. In short to create a new value stream map concerning travels within the corporate world and to possibly recognize the value added and non-value added activities. This purpose of this paper is to talk about the relevance of qualitative methods regarding alternatives to travel behaviour, research and explore the challenges...
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...Section 50 A Study on IIUM Students on the Issues of Group Workings Saiful Bahri ABSTRACT Under organizational behavior comes group behavior, how individual behave when working in group. This paper examines the posible errors that can be found in tasks done in group. The result showed that some of the errors are done on purpose due to laziness of IIUM students. Although, these students are aware of what causes the problems and what they should avoid to have a free-problem group work but they still manage to do them, either intentionally or unintentionally. Therefore, in reminding them, some ground rules and peer assessment should be adapted in each group. Keywords: free-rider, teamwork, miscommunication, and time management. INTRODUCTION Organizational behavior is the study of individuals and the behaviors they have within an organization and in a workplace setting. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, communication and management (Organizational Behavior Introduction, Catherwood Library). Group behavior is a part of the organizational behavior in which it falls under the interdiciplinary field of sociolagy, how individual work in small or large groups. Group behaviour differs from mass actions which refers to people behaving similarly on a more global scale while group behaviour refers usually to people in one place and having a coordinated behaviors. The members in a group should each be interdependence (depends on other member’s...
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...Phoenix Material Critical Thinking Worksheet Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day your research is due and concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group project by the deadline. You feel bad about this and do not respond to inquiries from group members. You post a message to the group explaining you are having computer problems. The group expresses their empathy and proceeds without you, completing and submitting the project with your name included. • A position opens in your department at work. You recommend to a coworker and friend in another department that she should apply. You previously consulted with this person on small projects, and she appears knowledgeable and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these work contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and arranges a meeting to ask you more details about the work done by your department. The meeting is productive, and your friend...
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...LEARNING (SML): EVIDENCE FROM RESEARCH With Introduction by Dr. Graham Dawes By Nicola Sankey March 2008 CONTENTS 1. An introduction to Self Managed Learning (SML) by Dr. Graham Dawes page 3 2. The Student Experience of Self Managed Learning (SML): evidence from research page 10 3. Introduction page 10 4. Research Strategy page 11 5. Empirical Research Evidence page 12 ▪ What did the students like about SML? page 12 ▪ How was it beneficial to students and what did they learn? page 21 ▪ Why might SML work less well? page 31 6. Evaluations and Conclusions page 33 7. Bibliography page 36 AN INTRODUCTION TO SELF MANAGED LEARNING (SML) Dr Graham Dawes The Self Managed Learning approach was created by Professor Ian Cunningham in 1978, drawing on his experiences of action learning and independent study and underpinned by Gregory Bateson’s theory of levels of learning (Bateson brought the concept of ‘learning to learn’ to the behavioural sciences). Self Managed Learning is a structured approach to learning with the following two main elements: the Learning Agreement and the Learning Group. Learning Agreement. The agreement is between the student, who undertakes to pursue their learning goals, and the learning group, who undertake to support them...
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...Assignment 3 Research Methodology by John Anderson 909441387 May 2012 Variable pay and its effect on Sales Team Motivation 1. INTRODUCTION It is widely accepted that Sales People are motivated by having some element of their remuneration linked to their actual sales performance. What is not clear is what the level of guaranteed pay (Fixed) should be and what level of variable Pay (commission) should be? This question essentially asks to what level the company wishes to share the reward of high sales performance while mitigating and sharing the risk of poor sales performance with the sales people. I will seek to understand the impact on sales people of having their package made up entirely of Commission and having no basic salary to rely on in times when they have not performed. The commission scheme I am analysing has the advantage of not being capped so there is potential for top performers to earn the highest wages in the company. I will explore the motivation levels as well as staff retention of top performers as well as poor performers. 1.1 Background to the study (Situation/context/related problem/concern in brief) 1.1.1 Situation: - the profitability and performance of a business is largely reliant on the amount of new business brought in by the sales teams as well the continued support and profitability of the existing client base. The motivation of the sales individuals as well as the team as a whole should therefore be...
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...Material Appendix I Critical Thinking Worksheet Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day your research is due and concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group project by the deadline. You feel bad about this and do not respond to inquiries from group members. You post a message to the group explaining you are having computer problems. The group expresses their empathy and proceeds without you, completing and submitting the project with your name included. • A position opens in your department at work. You recommend to a coworker and friend in another department that she should apply. You previously consulted with this person on small projects, and she appears knowledgeable and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these work contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and arranges a meeting to ask you more details about the work done by your department. The meeting is productive, and your friend...
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...working women in family Dreams Md.jobayer Uddin Bhuiyan 12-96175-3 American International University- Bangladesh 15th December, 2012 Acknowledgements This is our humble attempt to present gratitude in writing this “Report.” We have truly drowned upon our own experience as a student of M.B.A. We have also received help from number of persons in preparation of this report and we would like to thank them all. All the credit should go at first to our honorable faculty M.Hmidul Haque We found complete support throughout our survey from her by giving us direction, guidance, providing sample articles, report & so on. We disturbed him a lot by asking so many questions & visiting frequently on his office hours but he never felt bored even never became disturbed. Our sincere gratitude & heartiest thank goes to all the respondents of different positions, institutions and people of different age groups. We would like to thank all the respondents of AIUB, garment workers of Neat Fashion wear, and ALIC Insurance Company etc. For the secondary data collection, we are very much grateful to the websites related with the topic As an academic requirement of Business communication Subject, we have to make this report. We worked on a very common but complicated & huge issue which is working women in family and its positive and negative sides. At first it was mere an academic requirement to us, but when...
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...Critical Thinking Worksheet Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day your research is due and concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group project by the deadline. You feel bad about this and do not respond to inquiries from group members. You post a message to the group explaining you are having computer problems. The group expresses their empathy and proceeds without you, completing and submitting the project with your name included. • A position opens in your department at work. You recommend to a coworker and friend in another department that she should apply. You previously consulted with this person on small projects, and she appears knowledgeable and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these work contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and arranges a meeting to ask you more details about the work done by your department. The meeting is productive, and your friend takes notes to help with...
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...Research Paper The experience of ethnic minority workers in the hotel and catering industry: Routes to support and advice on workplace problems Ref: 03/06 2006 Prepared by: Tessa Wright and Anna Pollert (Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University) Funded by Acas and the European Social Fund For any further information on this study, or other aspects of the Acas Research and Evaluation programme, please telephone 020 7210 3673 or email research@acas.org.uk Acas research publications can be found at http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=405 ISBN 0-9554830-0-X ISBN 978-0-9554830-0-4 The Experience of Ethnic Minority Workers in the Hotel and Catering Industry: Routes to Support and Advice on Workplace Problems Ref: 03/06 2006 Prepared by: Tessa Wright and Anna Pollert (Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University) Funded by Acas and the European Social Fund Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the European Social Fund and Acas for providing financial support to the project, and Acas staff also for their guidance during the project, in particular Margaret Fox, Anthony Gould and Gill Dix. The project benefited greatly from the contributions of the Project Advisory Group, both in suggestions made on methodology, access and content at meetings, and help in accessing research participants. Many individuals and organisations helped us in gaining access to workers to interview...
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...“A RESEARCH ON CONSUMER INFLUENCE BY REFERENCE GROUP IN A COGNITIVE MEASUREMENT ABOUT OTOBI FURNITURE” 1. Introduction: Otobi began its long run journey in 1975 when painter & sculptor Nitune Kundu set up a small workshop with an even smaller budget. The only thing he was rich in was his passion, creativity & his gut feelings. Over the years Otobi transformed in to a solid brand, known for its superior quality furniture & choice of designs, with operations across many cities. Today Otobi, backed by world class business processes, is a name that celebrates the creative genius of its founder, a brand that is going beyond boundaries of imagination & a workplace that inspires the finest designs. Day by day Otobi is becoming a legacy in the history of Bangladeshi furniture market and they are expanding their market over the boundary of Bangladesh They are doing business now a days globally the fact is there promise of world class furniture is being kept in the market. Their full of innovative and modern product line is enriching our home, office and so many places. Though competitors are emerging in the market but the name “Otobi: World class furniture” is still being kept and that is why Otobi is holding the highest market share in the furniture industry. 2. Objective of the study: ❖ Broad objective To make ourselves familiarize with customers attitudes and their reference group and how they are influencing while buying products from Otobi furniture’s. ❖ Specific...
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...and Love Ones Walter A. Jones ITT Technical Institute Abstract Aims and Objectives of this research paper is to find out how different people like nurses, medical staffs, and family members experiences the death and dying between patient(s) and love one(s). Background with this paper is that there are many people dying and that are patient(s) and close one(s) and the research is conducting what experiences that these people have after their death that been left behind. Design of this research is to have a qualitative group interviews with the nurses and medical staffs that want to talk about and public group interviews with love ones and also if they don’t want to do the group interview they can do a questionnaire survey to be anonymous. Methods of this research had taken place in the lunch room of the hospital for nurses and any other medical staff that want to do the group interviews or questionnaires survey over the course of twelve months and the same with the general people that observation had taken placed in a public library. Conclusion of this research is that the nurses and medical staff have a difficult time to recuperating from a dying patient(s) or death that occurs. It also relives that the general public that also took place in the research are more impacted on losing their love one(s) or the person that they care about for the people that volunteer in the research. Experiments of Death and Dying of Patients and Love Ones Most often there are nurses and...
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...remember the Academic Integrity Policies you agreed to and be sure to submit your own original work. What issues face teen drivers? Many issues and problems will be explored throughout the course, but you will need to dig a little bit deeper into the issue of your choice. You will select one of the following issues: · Road Rage · Teen Crashes · Drunk Driving · Cell Phones and Driving For research locations for each of the issues, view the Project Resources[->0] page. If you would like to work on different topic, please check with your Instructor before you begin any research. Grading: This project is worth 250 points. Parts I is worth 150 points and Part II is worth 100 points. View the Project Rubric[->1]. You should be working on your project as you are working through the course. Your project will be submitted to your instructor upon completion of Module Six. You can use the project template document as a guide for creating your project. To do this, first click the link above to view the document in a new browser window. Then under the Edit menu, choose Select All and then Copy. Then in your word processor, open a new blank document and choose Paste. You can then save this document onto your computer. Part I: Identify the Issue or Problem—Written What do I need to do? 1. Select a topic from the above list. 2. Define the issue in terms of teen driving. 3. Complete research to explain what the problem is. Use statistics...
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...discuss care for clients wrestling with homosexual preference. It will also discuss care for clients trying to find their sexuality. The paper will discuss disputes and ethical issues for working with sexual minority clients. It will also discuss embracing multicultural concepts when working with sexually minority clients. It will discuss the importance of informed consent when working with sexually minority clients. It will also discuss the referral process when working with clients. Then the author will discuss what the chapter means to them. They will discuss different ideas and concepts taken from the chapter. Lastly, the author will discuss the action they will take as a result of the information learned in the chapter. Summarize This chapter focuses on treating people who are confused with their sexuality or those with the homosexual preference as a Christian clinician. A Christian clinician must focus on ethical guides to treat clients. “Those guides include competence, integrity, client well-being and respect for client autonomy.” (Sanders, R. K. 2013) In order to become competent in treating sexual minority clients you must become knowledgeable of history, cause and research related to the topic. You will then be able to apply the knowledge to the mental health needs of the client. You will want to learn if their sexual identity is the cause of their mental distress or if it is unrelated. If it is the cause of the mental distress they are likely to bring it up. They...
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...Group Dynamics in Corrections Kadijah Batiste MGT 415 Angela Gillette 09/20/2010 Abstract This paper will provide understanding of group dynamics in the correctional setting using personal examples and outside research. Group Dynamics in Corrections The field of corrections is sometimes considered the lowly or “bottom feeders” in society. Correctional officers get the least respect in the public eye, but we have the most dangerous job. In society eyes we are just babysitters for adults so it benefits us to form groups within the institution so that we can have others to relate to about the job that we do. The group dynamics in a correctional setting consist of different groups. There are your 12 hour groups and your 8 hour groups. In corrections there are many groups from the small groups such as administration, kitchen staff, and janitors to the larger groups such as C.E.R.T team, disciplinary board members for inmates, and shifts. Group dynamics is the study of groups, behavior in groups, group development, and the interrelations between groups and individuals, other groups, and larger entities (Johnson & Johnson, 2009, pg. 1). In the correctional business world group dynamics is important because it enhances the group members’ productivity and how officers interact with one another can set the tone for the whole work environment. If there is discord among group members then the safety and security of the institution is jeopardized. Our textbook say that...
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...How To Write a Thesis Statement What is a Thesis Statement? Almost all of us—even if we don’t do it consciously—look early in an essay for a one- or two-sentence condensation of the argument or analysis that is to follow. We refer to that condensation as a thesis statement. Why Should Your Essay Contain a Thesis Statement? to test your ideas by distilling them into a sentence or two to better organize and develop your argument to provide your reader with a “guide” to your argument In general, your thesis statement will accomplish these goals if you think of the thesis as the answer to the question your paper explores. How Can You Write a Good Thesis Statement? Here are some helpful hints to get you started. You can either scroll down or select a link to a specific topic. How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is Assigned How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is not Assigned How to Tell a Strong Thesis Statement from a Weak One How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is Assigned Almost all assignments, no matter how complicated, can be reduced to a single question. Your first step, then, is to distill the assignment into a specific question. For example, if your assignment is, “Write a report to the local school board explaining the potential benefits of using computers in a fourth-grade class,” turn the request into a question like, “What are the potential benefits of using computers in a fourth-grade class?” After you’ve chosen the...
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