...Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato, who has been offered the position of Assistant Cost Accounts at Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd, Hamilton. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. The head office of this company is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). To Fran’s disappointment she was not welcomed at the company. Even worse she discovered that there was no vacancy for her in Cost accounting instead she had been assigned to management information systems (MIS). Peter Bruton is her new boss and Mike, Tom and Adrian are her colleagues. Her first assignment was the compilation of the monthly Management Report known as “Big Brother”. Fran found that her part was almost entirely One day the Chief Accountant called Fran to his office to tell her about an upcoming management workshop in Auckland on Performance Measurement. Rob suggested Fran to attend the workshop. Unfortunately her boss was away on two weeks leave at the time but Rob said he would talk with Peter. Fran enjoyed the workshop. She even wrote a detailed report on the workshop for the Chief Accountant. On her return to Hamilton however she found all was far from well. Fran’s boss Peter was furious on Fran for going to the workshop without any prior intimation to him. He also attacked her verbally. The Chief Accountant on listening to her complaint advised her for a transfer...
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...Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering INTRODUCTION Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato, who has been offered the position of Assistant Cost Accounts at Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd, Hamilton. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. The head office of this company is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). To Fran’s disappointment she was not welcomed at the company. Even worse she discovered that there was no vacancy for her in Cost accounting instead she had been assigned to management information systems (MIS). Peter Bruton is her new boss and Mike, Tom and Adrian are her colleagues. Her first assignment was the compilation of the monthly Management Report known as “Big Brother”. Fran found that her part was almost entirely One day the Chief Accountant called Fran to his office to tell her about an upcoming management workshop in Auckland on Performance Measurement. Rob suggested Fran to attend the workshop. Unfortunately her boss was away on two weeks leave at the time but Rob said he would talk with Peter. Fran enjoyed the workshop. She even wrote a detailed report on the workshop for the Chief Accountant. On her return to Hamilton however she found all was far from well. Fran’s boss Peter was furious on Fran for going to the workshop without any prior intimation to him. He also attacked her verbally. The Chief Accountant on...
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...MGT 2383 Fall 2012: Group Case Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering (Author: Glyn Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand) Background: Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd. has its headquarters in Hamilton, New Zealand with manufacturing plants in South Auckland and Christchurch. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. In its early years it focused on the domestic market but in the last five years has expanded to the export market. The company employs 450 people, which makes it a large company by New Zealand standards. The case focuses on events in the Accounting Department at head office which is organized into two sections, Cost Accounting and Management Information Services (MIS). Fran, the New Graduate: Fran Hayden is in the final year of her Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) degree at the University of Waikato where she has proved to be a high achiever. Fran was interested in a position with Dairy Engineering because of the opportunity to gain practical experience, the higher starting salary compared to the industry average, and that her boyfriend lived in that community. Fran sent her resume to the company and two weeks later was invited to an interview with the Chief Accountant. She was surprised at the end of the interview to be offered the position of Assistant Cost Accountant. Fran said she would like to think it over. Two weeks later when she had still not replied she received a telephone call from Rob asking if she was going to take the position. Still...
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...Fran Hayden Jones Case Study What are the main issues in the case? Dairy Engineering showed a serious lack of communication among employee’s, from Fran’s experiences working for the company we have been able to gather that employees feel mistreated by managers, while managers are unable to communicate effectively. Organizational commitment is a large factor influencing the flaws in this companies ability to have a positive work environment. Employees are easily becoming stressed which is having a direct impact on their effectiveness, and their roles are not specifically outlined for them. Why did the problems/ issues occur? Continuance Commitment: Continuance commitment is the view that the employee is only attached to the company because of money motivation, and if they were to leave it would be costly to that employee; therefore the employee continues to work although they may be dissatisfied. In this particular case Fran is over her head in student debt and simply cannot afford to begin looking for another job. Although she is frustrated with the lack of communication from management and by the way she is treated by her managers she continues to work in her position working towards paying of her student debt, Fran is demonstrating continuance commitment. Task Identity: In this case, it is evident that Fran task identity is very inaccurate, along with the other employees at Dairy Engineering. The first flaw in task identity is that of the recruiting department;...
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...graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard University, his MA in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia University. Dr. Tyson is the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid “13123 Tyson”. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from 1991 to 1994, when he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist. His research dealt with problems relating to galactic structure and evolution. He became acting director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1995 and director in 1996. From 1995 to 2005 he wrote monthly essays for Natural History magazine, some of which were collected in Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (2007), and in 2000 he wrote an autobiography, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (Encyclopedia Britannica). In addition to dozens of professional publications, Dr. Tyson has written, and continues to write for the public, he wrote Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith. Origins is the companion book to the...
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...Service * Writing Guidelines * Mandy's Market * Contests * Annual Tanka Contest * Tanka Time * Where Tanka Prose Grows Poetry Analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Written by Kerry Michael Wood User Rating: / 9 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form PoorBest Bottom of Form Poetry Analysis: Those Winter Sundays (Poem by Robert Hayden) I met Bob Hayden in the late 1970s when I, a callow high-school teacher, joined him and others in a textbook authorship project. I was in awe of the former poet laureate of Senegal and later America's first black poet laureate. A soft-spoken gentleman behind thick-lensed glasses, he put me at ease with his unassuming camaraderie. He didn't speak much about himself. Other co-authors and editors sketched for me his early life: the fact that he had no birth certificate but was born with the name Asa Bundy Sheffey of parents who then separated; how at 18 months he was given to next-door neighbors who renamed him, though he was never legally adopted; how once he became a literary figure, he refused to be called a Negro poet and by so doing won the friendship and respect of Harlem Renaissance writers like Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. I treasure my memory of Robert Hayden. *************************** Robert Hayden's tribute to his foster father demonstrates the effectiveness of understatement, brevity and artful imagery. Mingled with respectful...
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...Anomalies in Bee Bennett Mansion Bee-Bennet Mansion, now converted into Sequoia Restaurant, was a 16 room Victorian wonder, and is now the home of Sequoia Wedgewood Wedding and Banquet Center. Back in its days, in the early 1850s, Colonel Fredrick Bee was one of the first merchants to set up his business in Placerville. He ran the pony express in California and set up the Bee telegraph company. The first tragedy hit the Bee family when his 2 year old son died of croup. Afterwards, the family moved out of the house and it passed on to many owners until in 1889, a judge renovated it and converted it into a 16 room mansion. The judge and his family lived there for many years, though tragedy struck them too. Their 3 year old son fell on the grand central staircase and died. Another baby daughter also died in a few months. Again the house was purchased by another owner before being opened for social events by its current owner. As with many other mansions, the Bee Bennett mansion also has a few apparitions and anomalies. Different ghosts behave in different ways. Some ghosts are benevolent while others are malicious. The ghosts in the mansion were harmless, but very particular about code of conduct and behavior. The spirits of Colonel Fredrick and Mrs. Bee have been spotted here. A former cook saw a solid, life-like couple appearing in the front porch swing dressed in crisp Victorian attire. They appeared to be enjoying the fresh air and the cook called out a hello and noticed the...
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...As a child, I grew fond of watching television. I always had the channel set on cartoons, watching the colorful display of silly humor and adult jokes that went over my head. However, the younger me found one cartoon special. Three childhood friends in a slice-of-life show that would try their hardest to accommodate their desire for cheap candy. The show, named Ed, Edd, N’ Eddy was one of my favorite shows that still holds a place in my heart to this day. The cartoon revolves around three friends, aptly named Ed, Edd, and Eddy, who go around their neighborhood, named the Cul De Sac, and come up with wacky schemes to make enough money for their favorite treat, a jawbreaker. Each episode shows an idea crudely constructed with various materials,...
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...Lies, damn lies and fiction-Answers and Questions 1. Explain what “unverifiable” means and how it is important in this article. Saying something is unverifiable means that it is impossible or rarely able to be confirmed, or proven to be true. The article “Lies, damn lies and fiction” talks about Stephen Glass, a The New Republic reporter that wrote unreal events. The word “unverifiable” is important in this article because Glass’ sources in his articles were not able to be proven to be true. 2. Describe “Hack Heaven” and explain the story behind Ian Restil. "Hack Heaven", an article written by Glass redacts the story of Ian Restil; a 15-year-old computer hacker who broke through the online security system of a "big-time software firm" called Jukt Micronics. Once inside, Restil posted every employee's salary on the company's web site alongside a bunch of nude pictures, each bearing the caption "THE BIG BAD BIONIC BOY HAS BEEN HERE BABY." According to Glass, instead of reporting this case, The Company executives decided that they required to hire the teenage hacker, who had obtained the services of an agent, Joe Hiert, described as a "super-agent to super-nerds. 3. Ultimately the sentence “a frightening story. But not true” is repeated twice. Why? Consider as well where this sentence is placed. What is the effect on you-the reader? The use of the sentence typed twice...
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...In detail, explain how Janie’s struggle to become and individual creates tension in her life Throughout Zora Neale Hurston’s story, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie goes through multiple hardships to reach her independence from the people that she loves in the story. She tries to reach independence from Nanny because she wants her to leave the house and marry someone that she does not love. She tries to gain independence from Logan. Finally, She tries to gain independence from Jodie because he is not letting her be who she wants to be. Throughout the beginning of the novel, Nanny tries to get Janie to leave the house and become a woman with a man. She no longer wants her to sit around all day at the house she lives in, even though Janie did lots of work in the town and especially at home. Nanny tries to set her up with many different suitors, trying to get her to marry and to adventually have children with a husband. Later in the story, she realizes that she is wrong, and is not supposed to chose a husband for Janie, only to realize after she had been married multiple times. Janie realizes that Nanny is protective of her when Nanny says, “Don’t tell me you done got knocked up already, less see – dis Saturday it’s two month and two weeks,” showing that Nanny wants her to live her life without having to worry about silly things like children, she just wants her to form a stable relationship. Janie’s relationship with Logan Kellicks is not too strong...
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... Lazy weekend days that begin at 12 and end at 2am always start with morning cartoons, especially if you were young enough to experience the golden age of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. Hours could slip by quietly, as pancakes cooled on a breakfast tray in front of the TV while I would laugh and holler as Tom and Jerry slapped each other with frying pans and Sheen on Jimmy Neutron explained his intense love for Ultra Lord. The shows I watched as a child shaped the way I behaved; from being harsh and mean like Sam on iCarly, to embracing my quirks like Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place, to developing a strange sense of humor like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. Through the years, I have watched a great number of TV shows from the truly terrible, (T.U.F.F. Puppy) to the famously great (Hannah Montana). There will always be one T.V. show, a specific cartoon, that will forever keep my heart in its furry clutches. This show is Scooby Doo. It is a show that has gone through twelve versions and has always managed to stay on the air or be re-booted. As I sat beside Mystery Inc. solve spooky mysteries, the temperaments and personalities of the main characters wound their way into my brain. Each of the main characters from Scooby Doo has taught me things I still use today, weather or not it was intended by the writers. All the way from the leader of the gang, to the goofy dog the show was named after, I fell in love with these characters as they wove tiny...
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...Human beings are born with the ability to sense the feelings of others. Even at a young age humans can tell when someone is happy, upset, or enraged. People are also born with the aptness to empathize for others, automatically sympathizing when someone is hurt, whether we know them or not. As people grow older, the sense of empathy for others is lost and the focus becomes more about ourselves. Solitary confinement, the “me versus them” mentality in America, the sentencing of Socrates to death show people acting in ways showing no empathy for others. So if we, as humans, are naturally empathetic, why are we so un-empathetic in our actions? In The Age of Empathy, Frans de Waal says that empathy is a trait humans are born with, but society has told us it is not one to be shown in public. “We live in an age that celebrates the cerebral and looks down upon emotions as mushy and messy” (de Waal, 7). Emotions are part of our being and how we feel, and because of this we should be expressing them and acting in ways that portray them. As humans, we long for interaction with others that gives us the opportunity to express ourselves and are not meant to live in circumstances that prohibit this, such as isolation. Though I do realize we have to have consequences for those who break the law, is this the best way in which to do so? According to afsc.org, solitary confinement has lead to visual and auditory hallucinations, hypersensitivity to noise and touch, uncontrollable feelings...
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...territory, as well as Yosemite National Park, Mesa Verde National Park Rocky Mountain National Park and the Grand Teton National Park. Jackson was the first pioneer to accurately photograph such wonders so realistic, helping unravel the mysteries associated with the West. In the last years of his life he would receive one of the most important commissions of his career (Jackson 234). Through perseverance, ingenuity, and the strength that only comes from a man on the frontier, Jackson laid the groundwork for one of America's best ideas (Duncan, Burns) Jackson would begin his decade of historic exploration in the summer of 1870. A man by the name of Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden arrived at Jackson's studio on the morning of July 23, 1870 with what he hoped was an enticing offering (Jackson 187). Dr. Hayden was head of the United States geological survey and was proportioned funds to document and map...
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...Fran Hayden Joins Dairy Engineering By Glyn Jones, University of Waikato Background Dairy Engineering (NZ) Ltd has its headquarters in Hamilton, New Zealand, with manufacturing plants in South Auckland and Christchurch. The company manufactures equipment for the dairy industry. In its early years it focused on the domestic market, but in the last five years it has expanded into the export market. The company employs 450 people, which makes it a large company by New Zealand standards. The accounting department at the head office is organised into two sections: cost accounting and management information services (MIS). The accounting department is structured as shown in Exhibit 1. Exhibit 1: Description of Employees in the Case Name Rob Poor Position Chief accountant Description Rob is the accounting department manager. He is 40 years old and is a qualified accountant with a chartered accounting (ACA) qualification. He has been with the company for six years. He is an unassuming person regarded as a bit ‘soft’ by his staff. cost Vernon is 30 years old and is a graduate with an ACA qualification. He joined the company 18 months ago. He is considered an easygoing type and is well liked by his staff. Peter is 37 years old and has a science degree in dairy technology. He is also studying part-time for a management degree through Massey University. He is regarded as ‘moody’ and is not well liked by his staff. Vernon Moore Chief accountant Peter Bruton Management accountant ...
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...Sample Proposals Typical Approach Proposals can vary a great deal, and we’ve provided examples that cover the range from formal contracts to informal letters of agreement. However, all were based upon previously-established conceptual agreement, and all provide a single fee for the project (or for each choice of yeses). The normal framework for the value pricing proposal should encompass this basic sequence: Situation Appraisal: Summarize and reconfirm the conceptual agreement concerning the condition to be improved and the desired state. Objectives: The outcomes expected, both tangible and intangible, quantifiable and non-quantifiable. These should be expressed in terms of impact on the client’s business, and sometimes are expressed again in the “values” category, if used. Value: Either clearly stated or implied through buyer conversations, what is the value of achieving the objectives. This sometimes appears in the “objectives” category. Metrics: How will the client evaluate success? What are the indicators that the objectives have been met? Simply stated: How would clients know it if they fell over it? Timing: Projects are finite. When do we begin, when do we end, and are there progress measures in between? Accountabilities: What is the client expected to provide (documents, access, administrative support) and what do we provide (focus group facilitation, product, reports)? What is the nature of the collaboration? Credentials (optional): Why is Zenger...
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