...What is the difference between work and fun? In the world we live in today, gambling is a professional career to some, whilst others gamble for leisure, a combination of necessity and pure enjoyment. However there is hardly any single moment where a person just fell into being a professional gambler, but there will be some people who realized that they didn’t have any other source of income. The truth is that there are many thousands of people around the country who make a good living exclusively from gambling. It is not easy, but it can be done. In order to become a professional gambler, he/she needs to practice, practice and practice some more. He/she needs to have the rules of whatever game you are planning on playing down cold. Once he/she knows the rules, he/she needs to practice, either live or online. In addition to practice, one also needs to have discipline. Discipline comes in many forms. Can you maintain your focus so that you make the right decisions? Can you maintain and stick to a proper budget? Discipline and practice is normally not enjoyable by any party, however obliged to do in order to become skilled and successful in the profession of gambling thus should be considered as work. When you are betting on sports, the number one priority that you should have is good solid research. It is difficult enough even with the greatest knowledge and excellent research to make accurate bets at a successful ratio, without research sports...
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... Does workplace fun matter? Developing a useable typology of workplace fun in a qualitative study Simon C.H. Chan ∗ Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong a r t i c l e Keywords: Workplace fun Useable typology Qualitative study Hospitality industry i n f o a b s t r a c t A fun work environment is a positive atmosphere for organizations to attract and retain employees. This study identifies the significant factors of workplace fun and develops a useable typology of workplace fun activities in the hospitality industry. A qualitative case study with grounded theory approach was used by conducting interviews with ten hotel human resource (HR) practitioners in the People’s Republic of China. The results identified four “S”s of workplace fun factors, namely: (1) Staff-oriented workplace fun, (2) Supervisor-oriented workplace fun, (3) Social-oriented workplace fun, and (4) Strategy-oriented workplace fun. This study provides a roadmap to guide future hospitality management research in workplace fun domain. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction As the jargon goes, “Happy Employees Produce Happy Customers.” (Wong and Ko, 2009, p. 196) There is a great challenge for organizations to attract and retain employees, to encourage employee well-being, and for employees to have fun on their job in the hospitality industry (Yu, 1999). Given the long working hours, shift work schedule, and handling...
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...Management: Ethics & Tactics Highlight the management theories or principles of each reading, submit 2 pages with your interpretations: This week, we learn that resonant managers zero in on employee emotions, feelings and attitudes. The “soft side” of management is important, it is important to manage both your emotions and the emotions of your subordinates. In Toxic Emotions at Work, the author recognizes that there are times when organizations and leaders cause pain. This pain can be either intentional or unintentional. Frost says, “organizations by their very nature create a regular supply of emotional pain” (p. 245). Compassionate managers need skills to be efficient toxin handlers. Paying attention to the types of questions and musing over how individuals or the organization would answer is a great start to acknowledging emotional toxicity and pain. Organizations need to strive to increase capacity for compassionate responses within the culture. Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson offer The One Minute Manager. They do not believe that good management takes a lot of time, they base this assumption on these underlying premises: “quality of time spent with subordinates is more important than quantity; and in the end, people should really be managing themselves” (p. 270). The three strategies they recommend are one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute reprimands. The authors admit that managers have to sincerely care about the people under...
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...FUN IN THE WORKPLACE: TOWARD AN ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR FRAMEWORK RELATING OFFICE DESIGN, EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY, AND JOB SATISFACTION By ALEXANDRA M. MILLER A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF INTERIOR DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2005 Copyright 2005 by Alexandra M. Miller ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank my committee chair, Dr. Margaret Portillo, for her direction and guidance throughout the entire research process. I would also like to thank Dr. M. Joyce Hasell for her support and valuable expertise. Additional thanks go to Dr. Larry Winner for his indispensable assistance as a statistical consultant. I would also like to thank PUSH for providing an excellent example of a fun workplace. In particular, I would like to thank partners John Ludwig, Chris Robb, and Rich Wahl for allowing me to conduct a case study of their business. Additional thanks go to Ron Boucher, Jourdan Crumpler, and Gordon Weller for taking the time to participate in interviews. I would also like to express my gratitude to Kathryn Voorhees for her help, humor, and friendship as she accompanied me throughout the research process. Finally, I would like to thank all of my friends and family for their support. In particular, I would like to thank to my parents for their constant support and for helping me to achieve my dreams. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..........
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...atmosphere really boring • Employees find no fun and good benefits from doing the job • Lack of recognition • Lack of benefits • Lack of fun and excitement II- • The employees’ lack of recognition causes them to be less motivated • Young people seeks excitement and fun and so they leave the boring job • Managers don’t even recognize the employee’s effort • Managers don’t even seek to know what the employee’s needs are. III- A. • Create more challenges at work • Fixed working schedule • Set a quota • Give employees some good incentives like choosing employee of the month B. • Employees will tend to work harder • Employees won’t even think about quitting the job • More young people will consider working full-time • Working atmosphere will be more fun and exciting C. 1. Both will improve employees’ motivation because they will have a goal set in their minds. That goal will motivate them to work harder and when they reach that goal, they’ll feel a sense of satisfaction. JAGPREET MANN (100277869) I- 1. Employees are not motivated 2. Employees who are working full time are seniors and so making the job and the working atmosphere really boring 3. Employees find no fun and good benefits from doing the job 4. Lack of recognition 5. Lack of benefits 6. Lack of fun and excitement II- 1. The employees’ lack of recognition causes them to be less motivated 2. Young people seeks excitement and fun and so they leave the boring job 3. Managers don’t...
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...Class 525 SOU Assignment - Create Your Own Model and it's description! SERFUNTHENTIC LEADERSHIP MODEL This model is the flavorful fun of some Servant Leadership and some Authentic Leadership Models. Serfunthentic Leader is an inspiring leader who has strong values and beliefs, is transparent, ethical, puts the needs of others first while encouraging fun at the work place. When people are having fun, they’re going to work harder, stay longer, maintain their composure in a crisis and take better care of the organization (Gostick and Christopher, nd). Not everyone who’s on the top of an organization is a good leader. Some may occupy the top job and command decisions while the ones below him are the ones who make it happen. A real leader is a person who has loyal, willing and committed followers. One who inspires his followers and in turn they listen and respect him. Below is an illustration of Serfunthentic leader model. Characteristics of Serfunthentic leaders (i) Vision: This leader articulates an ideological vision that describes a better future to which his followers can comprehend and follow. (ii) Honesty: Known to be honest and straightforward. (iii) Fun & Entertaining: This leader can either be fun or can encourage fun and entertainment at the workplace to show appreciation to his followers. (iv) Trustworthy: This leader can be trusted by his followers. (v) Transparency: They display transparency and consistency with their values. (vi)...
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...Regulations of an Independent Contractor Affordable Fun Jumps 1. Independent Contractor Relationship. The parties agree and acknowledge that the relationship of the contractor with Affordable Fun Jumps hereunder is that of an independent contractor and any and all services performed or provided by the contractor hereunder shall be performed or provided by it in such capacity. The contractor shall in no way and for no purpose hereunder be considered an agent, servant, employee, partner or co-venturer of Affordable Fun Jumps or be deemed to hold any relationship with Affordable Fun Jumps other than that of an independent contractor. Neither the contractor nor its substitute drivers, employees, helpers, or servants are to be considered employees of Affordable Fun Jumps at any time, under any circumstances or for any purpose. Affordable Fun Jumps agrees and acknowledges that it shall have no right to direct or control the details or methods by which the contractor performs its services hereunder, and that Affordable Fun Jumps shall be concerned only with the results accomplished by the services performed by the contractor and not with the means with which those results are accomplished. Contractor shall be solely responsible for the direction and control of its substitute drivers, employees, helpers, agents or servants, including selecting, hiring, firing, supervision, directing, servicing accepted routes, setting wages, hour of work, performance standards, regulatory compliance...
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...| Executive Management MBA 5000 | Assignment for Week 5 | | 3/15/2014 | I will discuss the management theories from the readings in week 5 and how they apply to my organization. | Question #1 Highlight the Management Theories of Each Reading In the reading, “Toxic emotions at Work”, the author examines the feelings of employees during organizational changes. “Organizations by their very nature create a regular supply of emotional pain. New bosses, mergers, layoffs. Stifling or confusing policies, salary decisions, and even the way that changes are communicated can all be sources of emotional pain felt by all organizational members” ((Pierce & Newstrom, 2011) It takes a leader that understands how to handle toxic behavior to lead the organization through change. This leader is considered a toxic handler and skills needed are: * Reading emotional cues of others and themselves * Keeping people connected and in communication * Acting to alleviate the suffering of others * Mobilizing people to deal with their pain and get back to a stable status * Building a team environment that rewards for compassionate action(Pierce & Newstrom, 2011) The author examines how the attribute of compassion will allow leaders to connect to with the emotions of employees and keeps the leader from being isolated. In “The One Minute Manager”, the author reveals the secret of management with a system that will provide quality time and produce a self-...
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...it’s chores or not. Instead children turn chores and hard work into fun and competitive games. Today we play many similar games that the Colonial people had played. Some games are tag, hide and seek hopscotch, leapfrog, marbles and blindman’s buff. Those however were only a few of the colonial games. They also played board games like checkers and backgammon. They either are doing it with materials such as kites and tops that were homemade. Also they used doll’s generally homemade. The doll was generally made out of rags and cornhusks but, other and easier materials...
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...Conventional thinking would suggest that the workplace is strictly for work and business. The new trend for most businesses today though, is to intertwine fun and games with work. Some people side with the conventional opinion and believe play in the workplace is bad for business. I believe that play should be incorporated into the workplace through games and fun activities because it would boost production, give workers a chance to relax, and increase overall morale. By adding fun and games to the workplace, it would boost production by giving it a slightly more competitive environment. In Caitlin Petre’s article, “Gamifying the Workplace,” she wrote “in a gamified office, a salesperson might try to outrank her colleagues on a digital...
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...employees were kept happy then they would in turn keep the customers happy. The culture was caring and family-like. Their two core values were fun and “Luv”, which was also the company’s ticker symbol. Luv, over the years became a code word for treating fellow employees and customers alike with dignity and respect, as well as demonstrating a caring and loving attitude. Throughout the company fun appeared many ways. It could be seen in the generally entertaining behavior of employees performing their jobs, ongoing pranks and jokes, and frequent company sponsored parties and celebrations. One manager even said “We’re kind of a big family here, and family members have fun together.” (Gamble and Thompson, 2008) Southwest’s current CEO, Garry Kelly described the Southwest Way as what defined the company’s culture over the past 36 years. The Southwest Way is to have a warrior spirit, a servants heart, and fun-loving attitude. The warrior spirit describes the hard work and determination to be the best. The servant’s heart refers to employees following the golden rule, putting others first, demonstrating proactive customer service and embracing the Southwest family. Fun-loving is simply having fun and enjoying your work while maintaining balance and celebrating successes. Executives at Southwest believed that their employees conveying that friendly, fun-loving spirit to customers was the key to a competitive advantage. Southwest takes care of their employees as part of a larger strategy...
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...Place Fish Market, where the authors believe that an organization that learns to have fun can be more productive, have fewer staff turnovers and be more customer focused. The main character, Mary Jane Ramirez moved to Seattle with her husband and kids. She landed a supervisory position with one of Seattle’s largest financial institutions, First Guarantee Financial. Within a year, she was promoted to manager of the operations group located on the third floor—also known as the ‘toxic waste dump’. These employees hated their jobs and this was reflected in their bad attitudes and poor performance. To Mary, the challenge of bringing life back to her unenthusiastic and unmotivated team seems impossible until she discovers the Pike Place Fish Market. She noticed that the employees were alive and passionate that people stop just to watch them work. She befriended one of the employees named Lonnie, who begins to teach her how she can transform her department with the right concepts. Below are his recommendations for transforming her toxic waste dump organization into a fun, fulfilling workplace that everyone will enjoy. 1. Choose your attitude 2. Play 3. Make their day 4. Be present Choose your Attitude One of the main principles of the book is ‘Choose your attitude,’ the simplest yet most powerful of the ideas. The authors’ main concept is that workers choose the attitudes they bring to work: they will either be miserable or they are going to be motivated. If they make the...
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...There are some sports that I would like to get involved with during High school. The sports that I would like to play in high school are Lacrosse,Basketball, and Football. I have played these three sports before and I would like to keep playing them. I'm going to explain to you why I would like to do these sports. These are the sports that I would like to play in High school. Lacrosse, is on of the sports that I would like to play in high school. Lacrosse is a fun sport for many reasons, you can deck people, you can have fun, you can hit people with a lacrosse stick and many more but overall it's fun. The sport is filled with rules so you don't hurt people. The most boring part of it is the work that you have to put in when you not with your...
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...how to achieve those dreams and become successful in life. Following are the things that I have learned from the lecture. To achieve success in life we need to have dreams; be it a childhood dream or the dreams that we dream when we grow up but we always need to have dreams. And then we should work towards achieving those dreams. And when we work towards achieving those dreams we can never say that those dreams can be achieved at one go. We are going to face lot of failure and obstacles blocking our way. And then when we experience failure and other problems, complaining and wining is never going to solve our problem. Instead we should never think that it's the end of our dream and we should consider those failure as the inspiration to work harder and the we should keep on trying because everything is possible in life. Now to have prosperity in life we need to have the sense of having fun; wherever we are and in whatever situation we are, we should never stop having fun. And then we should study ourselves, whether we are the person with the sense of fun or the person without fun. If we find out that we lack the sense of fun then we should work towards making our life fun. And the next thing to achieve...
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...Welcome to room 213! I am very glad you could come tonight. I hope you have had fun touring the whole school. Tonight you will be able to see all of the work I have done throughout this year. This class got strict at times, but in the end we got a lot of work done. I have enjoyed a lot of things we have done throughout the year. Literature was really fun because got to read three core reading books, which all had very good endings and I'm very glad we read them. We got to do a project called Coming of the Gods, which you will see on the walls. We got to write a bunch of essays, but the most fun ones were the persuasive essay and the evaluative essay. Sadly, we also had to do standards when we did something incorrect. In social studies, we got to do ancient empires and a China PowerPoint...
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