...In July of 1991, Fred Maiorino lost his job as a sales representative for Schering-Plough after several years as a top salesperson. After a lengthy court case and trial, Fred won a lawsuit in the state of New Jersey for age discrimination and was awarded $8.44 million in 1994. Whether or not Fred’s age was the reason Maiorino was actually a factor is beyond the scope of this paper or the information on hand. The jury that sat for the trial certainly has more details and first-hand accounts of the issues; the jury decided in favor of Maiorino and, with a little faith in our justice system, I will accept their decision. After a review related to motivation, I discuss the actions Schering-Plough took to motivate Fred and the way feedback and age affect job satisfaction and job performance. Motivation Methods of motivating employees is much discussed in management journals. From Herzberg’s KITA (kick-in-the-ass) method (2003) to need- based motivation to reinforcement theory, this issue has raised many questions about what kind of motivation works for companies. In my research, I found that one of the most important things for managers to keep in mind when trying to motivate an employee is that every employee is different and will react differently to the various techniques available (Duening & Ivancevich, 2006; Kolstrup, 2012; Milbourne & Francis, 1980; Deal, Stawiski, Graves, Gentry, Weber & Ruderman, 2013). A lack of absenteeism, putting forth best effort, always...
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...couldn’t help themselves, it is my dream. Fred Lewyn, a licensed attorney has been living this dream of mine for over thirty years and although he is in his fifties every day is an interesting day to him. In addition, Mr.Lewyn works for the insurance company at CNA for the last fourteen years, those who have an accident will be represented by Mr.Lewyn and his fellow attorneys. Being lawyer consists of attending court, representing a client and, of course, lots of paperwork, but to Fred Lewyn everyday's an adventure. Fred Lewyn grew up in a family full of lawyers. His grandfather,uncle and even his father were lawyers, “it ran in the family” says Mr.Lewyn. Mr.Lewyn grew up a shy kid, being a shy kid in high school didn’t really set him on the path to being a lawyer. Although, since he took part in court many times and speaking in front of a judge really made him more comfortable when it came to awkward situations. When he was in high school he liked study and work on political campaigns and he...
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...hate Muslims and various other minorities with no intention of ever changing their mind (Poll Results: Islam). Trump’s hatred is rather hard to trace. He grew up in the Queens borough of New York City, a fairly open minded community, and there was nothing to suggest either of his parents influenced him to be so hateful. On the contrary, Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the son of German immigrants and made his fortune selling affordable housing and his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was an immigrant from Scotland. By all accounts, Trump should be fairly sympathetic to immigrants (Donald Trump Biography). However, Fred Trump may not have been the affordable housing angel that history made him out to be. According to a New York Time’s article from June of 1927, the same year Fred Trump began his real estate company, revealed that a violent altercation between hundreds of police and members of the Ku Klux Klan took place the preceding may. According to the article a man named Fred Trump was amongst the Klansmen released from police custody after the brawl, his address was listed in the article: it was the exact address of Donald Trump’s father (Blum). Being raised by an immigrant and a hardcore racist in a large family could not have been easy for Trump. Fred’s influence likely lead to Donald’s more hateful views life and the strain that it no doubt caused in his family may have led to Donald Projected his views on his parents onto immigrants in general. Donald Trump is a hateful man...
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...xxxxxxxxxx University Prophet, Priest & King: Jesus and His fulfillment of each office A research paper submitted to Professor xxxxx xxxxxxx in partial fulfillment of the requirements for BIBL 000 xxxxxxxx by xxxxxxx xxxxxxx 123456789 I. Introduction II. Prophet A. General role of prophet B. Jesus as prophet III. Priest A. General role of priest B. Jesus as priest IV. King A. General role of king B. Jesus as king V. Conclusion Prophet, Priest & King: Jesus and...
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...Gein was a violent alcoholic who was frequently unemployed. Augusta on the other hand followed to a different beat she was a very religious individual whom had very harsh opinions on other women. Often times, Augusta would refer to other woman as prostitutes and instruments of the devil. According to Dr. George Arndt, a psychiatrist that studied the case of Edward Gein, Augusta’s obsessive and negative perspective on women rubbed off on her children, more specifically on Edward. She reserved time every afternoon to read her children verses from the bible, usually selecting graphic verses from the Old Testament dealing with death, murder and divine retribution. Without surprise, Edward himself became a target for bullies. Classmates and teachers recalled off-putting mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. Despite his poor social development, he did surprisingly well in school and was often viewed as an average academic student. Many sources cite that Edward’s mother Augusta often beat her children because she was convinced that they were going to become just like their father, a drunken failure of a husband. Augusta operated a small grocery store and eventually purchased an isolated farm on the outskirts of the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin. This location soon became the Gein family’s permanent residence. At this time Plainfield, Wisconsin was a normal and typical small town that had a population of about seven hundred...
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...Case 1: Spanning the Globe By: Allen D. Engle, Sr. Eric Christopher, Associate Director for Global HR Development at Tex-Mark, was sitting in his car in an early-morning traffic jam. He had thought that by leaving his home at 7:00 a.m. he would have been ahead of the heavy commuter traffic into San Antonio’s city center. The explanation for the long queue was announced by the radio traffic service. A large, portable crane, used to set up concrete barriers around road works, had overturned, and inbound and outbound traffic would be at a dead stop for at least an hour. Eric had ended up at Tex-Mark, a computer input-output manufacturer and supplier, through an indirect career route. Brought up in the Hill Country Village district of San Antonio, Eric had graduated from Churchill High School and Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a major in History and a minor in Spanish. His maternal grandmother lived in Tennessee, but was born and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and Eric had spent several summers while in high school and at university backpacking around Europe. His facility for languages was impressive and he had an excellent working use of Spanish, French, Italian and German. He could converse in Cantonese, as the result of working in a noodle restaurant during university and had started a tutorial course in Mandarin last fall. Upon graduation, Eric backpacked around Europe and South America until his money ran out. Returning to Dallas he took a ticketing job with SouthWest...
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...Desire’ Godfrey Ms. Kendall Eng 132.010 April 28, 2011 Annotated Bibliography McCubbin, I. Hamilton, Barbara B. Dahl, Philip J. Metres, JR., Edna J. Hunter, and John A. Plag. “Family Separation and Reunion: Families of Prisoners of War and Servicemen Missing in Action”. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. Print. This book delves into the lives of children that have an absence of their fathers caused by the assignment of the military. These authors pinpoint some of the difficult obstructions these children have to face while these men are MIA (missing in action). They talk about the adjustment and the adapting to the prolonged and seemingly indefinite absence of a father, and how a relationship between a father and child changes over the long period of time until the veteran returns. Moreover, they collected data from 42 families of returned prisoners of the Vietnam War and attempted to identify a combination of factors that could explain the variability in the quality of the father-child relationship subsequent to the returning from the War. This information from this book will help convey emotional lives that these children have to endure. This book will strengthen my research by pointing out how children are affected when there is a nonattendance of one of the parents for a long period of time. Bowen, L. Gary, Dennis K. Orthner. The Organization Family: WORK AND FAMILY LINKAGES IN THE U.S... New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Print. This...
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...How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands [July 8, 2013] Chapter 2. Phonology: A System of Sounds [00:15:53] So, phonology. Phonology is the system of sounds that languages have. There's a subset. There's a list, a finite list, of possible sounds that language can use. I'm going to put aside for the moment the question of sign languages and how they work. I'm going to talk about them in a little bit. The idea is that English has about forty of these phonemes. So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes — sorry, phonemes. So, for example, English has a phoneme of "lu," "l," and a phoneme of "r." And so, an English speaker can hear the difference between "lip" and "rip" and that corresponds to two different words in English. Other languages don't have that distinction and so those distinctions are very difficult for non-native English speakers to learn. So, part of what goes on when you learn, is you have to learn the language — the phonemes that your language has. Another part of the problem of learning language is you have to figure out what the boundaries are between the words. You have to use sound signals to figure out the boundaries between the words. Now that — If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words...
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...other equally based on gender, race, and age. To begin, genders are not treated equally in the court system. Females and males will have different punishments depending on the crime, rather than have the same sentence. Sometimes the male gets the better end of the punishment and sometimes it’s the female. In fact many places in America still have gender biases: “In the last decade, more than 30 states have produced studies...
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...Exploring the World of Pedophilia Abnormal Psychology 201 Abstract In recent years religious groups, policymakers and psychologist have debated information regarding the psychosexual disorder called Pedophilia. Most people agree that this disorder deserves attention, and there are very negative stigmas associated. California Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Democrat, wants to federalize a state law to protect pedophiles. In October 2013, the top cleric in Poland’s Roman Catholic Church said parents share blame for certain cases of pedophilia. Recently, Iranian legislature approved a law that will allow girls under the age of 13 to marry as long as the permission of her father is granted. This research paper will examine the historical, cultural, and psychological information regarding pedophilia and how this disorder is viewed in a modern society. This research paper will also examine the prevalence, causes, and treatment of this disorder. Exploring the World of Pedophilia Pedophilia, also spelled paedophilia, psychosexual disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child of the same or opposite sex. (Britannica, 2013) The American Psychiatric Association has included Pedophilia in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1968. (Blachard, 2010) This research paper will explore the historical, cultural, and psychological information related to the disorder of pedophilia. Researching...
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...WEDDING Wedding Planning Worksheets planner and guide for the wedding of to date time location Calendar Checklist The following checklist is an ideal timetable. Couples who do not have as much time as shown should plan their wedding in much the same order, using the checklist as a guide. Be sure to check things off as they are completed. immediately after the engagement: * Discuss a budget and the size and style of the wedding with parents. Decide who pays for what. * Choose a wedding date and time. You may want to check vendor availability prior to setting date. * Create a binder to organize your thoughts, photos, worksheets, etc. * If using a wedding consultant, enlist their services. * Make initial contact with vendors and obtain references. * Meet with clergymember; schedule pre-marital counseling. * Reserve wedding and reception sites; make initial catering contacts. * Register at local bridal registries. * Hire photographer. * Hire videographer. * Make arrangements for the music at the wedding and reception. * Make all transportation arrangements to and from the wedding and the recep- tion. Consider hiring a limousine, party bus, trolley or horse-drawn carriage. six months or more before: * Compile the guest list. * Send out Save the Date cards. * Reserve a block of hotel rooms for out-of-town guests. * Choose wedding rings. * Send engagement...
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...Sheridan College | Filmore Furniture Ltd. | Case Study Analysis | | Instructor R. MichaudOctober 1,2014 ByCassandra KaslerAbdul QadirMuhammad Jamal | | Summary Fred Filmore incorporated Filmore Furniture Ltd. in 1970 as a sole proprietor. The company designs, manufactures, and wholesales colonial maple furniture to small retail stores and major chain stores. In 1983 Phil Filmore, Fred’s son purchased the company from his father who was going into retirement. He developed the company through modernizing the plant, as well as introducing assertive management skills, new marketing strategies, and merchandising concepts. This generated $3.8 million in increased sales income within a ten year time period and enhanced the reputation of the company. However its profits and cash flow could not meet the expense of paying for the modernization, which resulted in 31% of the company shares being sold to 5 local investors. Phil Filmore pass away in a car accident in 1999, leaving his debts, and 63% of the company’s shares, to his wife Lucinda who was a house wife with little to no experience and knowledge of how to run a business. Problem Statement Lucinda Filmore has to decide what to now do with the company her husband has left behind for her. She has two children to raise, is unemployed with minimal skills and has a high standard of living. She needs to decide what to do with the company that will help her be freed from the debit left behind, in addition to sustaining...
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...Business ethics are unique to every company. The rules and regulations established by the company explaining, who, what, when and how a company expects their employees, customers, and vendors to conduct themselves while employed or doing business with the company. An employer’s code of ethics has to be a living document due to ever changing times that we live in, as new technologies are developed or as Federal regulations change. No one in the company is exempt from the code of ethics they are applicable to everyone from the top down. The code of business ethics can be described as “a document that provides behavioral guidelines that cover daily activities and decisions within an organization” (David, 2011, p. 313). In this case study, a comparison of McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) and Starbucks’ Standards of Business Conduct will be conducted and analyzed. From the beginning, it is apparent that MCD and Starbucks have different views about what the Standards of Business Conduct means within their companies. MCD states that “the Standards of Business Conduct give us guidance and direct us to resources to help us make the right decision” (MCD, 2013, p. 8). While Starbucks states, “The Standards of Business Conduct support the Global Business Ethics Policy and provide an overview of some of the legal and ethical standards we are each expected to follow every day” (Starbucks, 2011, p. 6). Many of the standards for MCD and Starbucks are the same; there are many unique...
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...North Korea) faced the most critical test of its life, and survived. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the drastic cuts in patron aid from China, and the onset of famine that killed hundreds of thousands all constituted the ultimate test of DPRK stability, and the regime staggered on through it all.(1) There are five potential variables that could bring the Arab Spring to North Korea’s doorstep: individual socio-economic development, rates of economic growth (rising expectations), demography (youthful population), the contagion effect, or regime type. Do we see the possibility for change in the DPRK from any of these? Not really. In the months since Kim Jong-un has been in power, most telling is the way he remains overshadowed by his late father and grandfather. Kim jong Un's a contrast to his introverted dad, Kim Jong Il. In power for more than a year, Kim is very much an extrovert who loves to appear in public, watch his beloved hoops and deliver speeches. "Much of his behavior may be political theater aimed at convincing his own people that the young general is comfortably in charge, but it is also a contrast with his father's ruling style," author Victor Cha, says in his book “the impossible state”(2) Kim Jong Il paid no attention to the public aspect of ruling, whereas his son's visibility and embrace of popular culture appears to be aimed at convincing North Koreans that changes may actually occur...
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...MANAGING EXPATRIATE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT Referring to the case study, there are gaps identified in the Kline & Associate international human resources management practices in terms of expatiate management. Before sending an employee to an international assignment there are certain skills an employee must acquire and it is the duty for the HRM of the firm to prepare the employee for any international assignment. However this was not done by Kline & and Associate before sending Fred Bailey to Tokyo which caused the culture shock and the challenges faced by Fred and his family in Japan. Firms use a variety of HR practices to manage their expatriates (Mendenhall et al., 1987; Brewster and Scullion, 1997). As successful expatriate assignments are indispensable to MNCs for strategy implementation, researchers and practitioners alike are interested in determining how to facilitate the success of expatriates’ assignments (Stroh and Caligiuri, 1998; Dowling and Welch, 2004; Scullion and Collings, 2006). However, MNCs differ on the extent to which these practices are used in managing expatriates (Tung, 1982; Kopp, 1994; Peterson et al., 1996; Scullion and Starkey, 2000) and how effectively they are designed (Mendenhall et al., 1987). According to Adler and Ghadar (1990), expatriate management practices, namely who the firm considers as possible expatriates, how the firm selects and trains them, what criteria the firm uses to assess their performance, and what impact the...
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