...Evaluation 10 Leadership Strengths 10 Leadership Weaknesses 11 Recommendations for Leadership Development 13 References 14 Organization Overview In this section, I will give you a detailed description of my Chosen organization, leadership practices of its primary leader, and how the practice of the primary leader relates to the organization culture. My chosen organization is Weiser Park Youth Center (WPYC): an after school facility located in Fort Wayne Indiana. I will do an evaluation on Mr. Kweku Akan, who was the site director. I choose this organization because I was once an employee there for several years and will like to better understand how having Mr. Akan as a leader affected the organization culture. Organization Description Weiser Park Youth Center is a community center located in Fort Wayne Indiana. It is under the supervision of the City of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation department. This organization was established on 1998 to serve as an after school program and a safe haven for children living in the neighborhood and surrounding areas. Due to its location, Weisser Park Youth Center provides services to mostly children and families of the African American demographic. Serving the children warm meals are a routine part of everyday at the center. They are also assisted with homework and also have time to play games and have access to computers and the internet. On some Saturdays during the school year, the children are encouraged to...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction a. Retail Market b. Retail in India c. Organized Retail in India d. Role of Information Technology in Retail 2. Key System Applications in the Organization a. Types of Information Systems in Retail Outlets 3. Requirement Analysis a. Operational Requirements b. Tactical Information Requirements 4. Software Requirement Specification a. Operating Systems b. Retail Man 2007 c. Languages 5. Hardware Requirements a. Three Tier Approach 6. Logical Design 7. Implementation 8. Security In Retail 9. Innovation 10. Conclusion 11. References INTRODUCTION RETAIL MARKET: A retailer can be defined as a collective term for any merchant who buys goods from a variety of wholesalers or consumers. Retailers complete the final link of the fashion/grocery chain. In the retail industry, success is dependent on the ability to withstand demand volatility and its financial risk. Flexibility, forecasting, partnership and efforts to maximize the profitability of whole supply chain include the remedy for risks. RETAIL IN INDIA: India has witnessed a tremendous growth in this sector. India’s attempt to foray in the retail industry the international way has met with some success. A tremendous opportunity exists in the Indian market...
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...ADRA AC&H AC&H H&S ADRA HA HA H&S OI REC NAT NAT OI VOC VOC SGO&H REC SGO&H pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -1- ADRA AC&H H&S NAT HA OI SGO&H REC VOC pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -3- General Conference Youth Ministries Department Director: Gilbert Cangy General Conference Associate Youth Director/Pathfinder World Director: Jonatan Tejel General Conference Honors Committee: Jonatan Tejel, Chairman Vanessa Correa, Secretary Gennady Kasap: ESD Youth Director Busi Khumalo: SID Youth Director Mark O’Ffill: NAD representative John Sommerfeld: SPD representative Paul Tompkins: TED Youth Director Jobbie Yabut: SSD Youth Director Udolcy Zukowski: SAD Pathfinder Director Copyright © 2014 by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church All rights reserved. Published 2014 First edition published 1998. Second edition 2011. Third edition 2014 Rights for publishing this book outside the U.S.A. or in non-English languages are administered by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church. For additional information, please visit our website, www.gcyouthministries. org, email youthinfo@gc.adventist.org, or write to Youth Ministries Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists® Church, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904, U.S.A. Cover and inside design by Jonatan Tejel Printed in the United...
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...John Bartlow Martin / The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster No One Stopped Already the crowd had gathered. Cars clogged the short, black rock road from the highway to the mine, cars bearing curious spectators and relatives and friends of the men entombed. State troopers and deputy sheriffs and the prosecuting attorney came, and officials from the company, the Federal Bureau of Mines, the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Ambulances ar- rived, and doctors and nurses and Red Cross workers and soldiers with stretchers from Scott Field. Mine res- cue teams came, and a federal rescue unit, experts bur- dened with masks and oxygen tanks and other awkward paraphernalia of disaster. . . . One hundred and eleven men were killed in that explosion. Killed needlessly, for almost everybody concerned had known for months, even years, that the mine was dangerous. Yet nobody had done any- thing effective about it. Why not? Let us examine the background of the explosion. Let us study the mine and the miners, Joe Bryant and Bill Rowekamp and some others, and also the numerous people who might have saved the miners’ lives but did not. The miners had appealed in various directions for help but got none, not from their state government nor their federal government nor their employer nor their own union. (In threading the maze of official- dom we must bear in mind four agencies in author- ity: The State of Illinois, the United States Government, the Centralia...
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...Analysis Assessment Code: C200 Date: 9/1/14 Organization Overview In this section, I will give you a detailed description of my Chosen organization, leadership practices of its primary leader, and how the practice of the primary leader relates to the organization culture. My chosen organization is Smith Youth Center: an after school facility located in Denver. I will do an evaluation on Mr. John Smith, who was the site director. I choose this organization because I was once an employee there for several years and will like to better understand how having Mr. Smith as a leader affected the organization culture. Organization Description Smith Youth Center is a community center located in Denver. It is under the supervision of the Denver Parks and Recreation department. This organization was established on 1998 to serve as an after school program and a safe haven for children living in the neighborhood and surrounding areas. Due to its location, Smith Youth Center provides services to mostly children and families of the African American demographic. Serving the children warm meals are a routine part of everyday at the center. They are also assisted with homework and also have time to play games and have access to computers and the internet. On some Saturdays during the school year, the children are encouraged to participate in a Saturday school (Tutoring Program) where they learn about African and African American history and culture, Math and English Language. The Tutoring Program...
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...Guide to Photography Photography Basics n ational geographic complete guide to photography: p hotography and the camera Taking a Picture creating a photograph requires only the single act of 1. Framing the Picture pushing the button that triggers the shutter, which is a ■ Light enters the lens. moving curtain that lets light fall on the digital sensor for ■ Light bounces off reflex mirror and through pentaprism to viewfinder. ■ Photographer sees what the camera sees a set length of time. Everything else is preparation and internal mechanics. Photography, in other words, can be 99 percent anticipation and 1 percent action. The parallel through the viewfinder. between a photographer and a hunter, in which the trigger pull is analogous to the push of the shutter button, is obvious. Both shoot. But a hunter sends out a missile; a pho- 2. Taking the Picture ■ Photographer depresses button. artistic calculation beyond simple aim. Modern digital SLRs, ■ Reflex mirror rises. increasingly user-friendly, allow photographers to concen- ■ Shutter opens at designated shutter speed. ■ Aperture opens to designated measure. ■ Light travels straight to sensors. tographer draws in reflected light. He or she must make an trate more on that aesthetic than on mechanics. COVER: Octavian Radu Topai/National Geographic My Shot Hawaii, U.S. national geographic complete guide to photography: p hotography...
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...“Nike” History Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1962. The partners began their relationship at the University of Oregon where Bowerman was Knight’s track and field coach. While attending Stanford University, Knight wrote a paper about breaking the German dominance of the U.S. athletic shoe industry with low-priced Japanese shoes. In an attempt to realize his theory, Knight visited Japan and engineered an agreement with the Onitsuka Tiger Company, a manufacturer of quality athletic shoes, to be their sole distributor in the United States. In 1962, Knight received the first shipment of 200 pairs of Tiger shoes to his parent’s garage in Oregon. The shoes were bought by Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS), the name of the partnership between Knight and Bowerman that they formed with only $1,000 in capital. Knight peddled Tiger’s shoes at local track meets grossing $8,000 of sales in their first year. Knight and Bowerman both had full time jobs, so in 1965, Jeff Johnson was brought in as the 1st full time employee for BRS. Jeff Johnson quickly became a valuable asset. Jeff started all of BRS’s print advertising and even started designing some shoes. In 1971, BRS, with creditor support, started manufacturing their own line of shoes. Later that year, the first BRS shoe was introduced. It was the first shoe that bore the Nike brand name, referring to the Greek Goddess of Victory, and the Swoosh trademark. A student designed the Swoosh trademark for...
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...Focus on the Leader Michael Short Dowling College Abstract Dr. Scott Morris is the founder and director of the Church Health Center in Memphis Tennessee; America’s largest faith-based clinic. Dr. Morris is also the associate minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Memphis. Dr. Morris’s ministries provide health care for the working poor and uninsured in Memphis and promote both a healthy physical body and a healthy spiritual body. Dr. Morris as a pastor and a medical doctor has written a new book, Health Care You Can Live With: Discover Wholeness in Body and Spirit in which be provides a unique view of the church and the medical industry and how they can each be a place of healing. He is a firm believer that health care through the government will not work, but has proven through his Church Health Center in Memphis that there is a real way for health care to work. See figure 1 in the appendix for a picture of Dr. Morris. Focus on the Leader The GOOD Dr. Morris’s leadership of the Church health Center in Memphis is outstanding. When the governments’ health care program is incapable of functioning effectively, from Dr. Morris’s book, Health Care You Can Live With, (see Figure 2 in the appendix for a view of the book’s cover), we have learned that his nonprofit health care center is treating 55,000 patients a year with only a 13 million dollar budget. This is equivalent to 100 million dollars...
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...Why retail electricity competition is bad for small consumers: British experience Presentation to the international conference Restoring Just and Reasonable Electricity Rates Washington DC: 28-29 September 2002 Steve Thomas Senior Research Fellow Public Service International Research Unit (PSIRU) School of Computing and Mathematics University of Greenwich 30 Park Row London SE10 9LS UK Tel: 44 208 331 9056 Fax: 44 208 331 8665 Email: Stephen.thomas@gre.ac.uk Why retail electricity competition is bad for small consumers: British experience 1. Introduction For most products, to suggest consumers would be better off served by a regulated monopoly than by a competitive market would be a heresy, but for electricity, experience in Britain suggests that this would indeed be the case. There are four main reasons for this: • Competition is not a ‘free good’. Introducing competition imposes a range of additional costs that must be paid by consumers. In the case of electricity, these costs are very high and it is far from clear that the benefits will outweigh them; • Retail electricity competition will result in a transfer of costs from large to small consumers because large consumers have the incentive, negotiating skill and resources to get the best deal from the market; • Within small consumers, it will be the poorest consumers that do worst because competing retail suppliers will target rich consumers...
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...Business Plan Loan Proposal A-List Fitness, Inc. Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp Indoor Facility Catherine Andersen 3961 North Stowell Ave. Shorewood, WI 53211 414-416-5873 Executive Summary Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp (MABC) indoor facility is an exciting new concept in the fitness industry in general and in Milwaukee specifically, one where adults don’t need to struggle to fit exercising into their daily routines and where they can get personalized instruction, effective exercise routines AND nutrition support – all of which support a healthy lifestyle and are promoted by the fitness industry. Adults in the Milwaukee area will no longer need to waste time with the trial and error of trying to figure out an efficient exercise regimen and nutrition plan that works for them in their busy lives as well as one that supports their goals AND works for their families. Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp incorporates these concepts in a seamlessly integrated way. At the Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp indoor facility, we will offer non-traditional...
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...Company Background This report is a comprehensive marketing plan for Burlington Sporting Goods, located in Alamance County, NC. Burlington Sporting Goods (BSG) is Alamance County’s oldest sporting goods store. Since the store opened in October 1947, BSG has offered a wide variety of sport related products and services to the people of Burlington and Graham. Along with retail sporting goods and apparel, BSG offers corporate screen-printing for team uniforms, a basketball facility and an indoor batting facility. The batting facility features a completely enclosed 70' x 70' batting cage with nine token operated pitching machines. Additionally, BSG offers Nike SPARQ training and hosts birthday parties and summer camps for basketball, cheerleading and baseball. Mission Burlington Sporting Goods strives to foster mutually beneficial ties in Alamance County. Since we opened our doors in October 1947, Burlington Sporting Goods has provided the towns of Graham and Burlington with a wealth of services for all their athletic and sport needs. We're the oldest sporting goods store in Alamance County, and we take pride in providing Alamance County with our team-oriented and friendly staff (BSG, 2013). The following plan is designed to boost the financial success and brand equity of Burlington Sporting Goods in order to help the organization achieve and maintain its stated mission. It features an analysis of BSG’s current position within its market, an analysis of the organization’s target...
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...The Guilford Strategic Alliance: Building Tomorrow, Today Pursuing and Maximizing Our Potential Developing Our Road Map Focus Groups Summary Report* As of March 2008 * So far The Guilford Strategic Alliance: Building Tomorrow, Today - Community Survey Results Table of Contents Introduction Focus Group Summaries Immigrants Judicial System Greensboro News and Record Editorial Staff Secondary Education Greensboro Foundations Towns – Jamestown, Pleasant Garden, Sedalia, Stokesdale, Summerfield, Whitsett Higher Education Environment Cooperative Extension County Advisory Group Former Guilford County Commissioners Non-Profit Organizations Hospitality, Conventions, Arts & Sports Focus Group Detailed Notes from Focus Group Meetings Introduction Why Focus Groups? Phase One of the Strategic Alliance Project was Assessment. The goal during this phase was to engage the public in the project, to receive comments from stakeholders and residents, and to establish a benchmark for future public assessments of County performance. Three methods were used to meet the Assessment goal: a community survey, facilitated public forums and focus groups. This report summarizes the focus group discussions. How did input differ from the community forums and survey? The focus groups are made up of community stakeholders that have specific interactions with County government. In some cases there is a very strong existing relationship. In others, there is a desire for greater interaction...
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...Moore 1. How Did Bush Happen? 2. Poppy’s Secret 3. Viva Zapata 4. Where Was Poppy? 5. Oswald’s Friend 6. The Hit 7. After Camelot 8. Wings for W. 9. The Nixonian Bushes 10. Downing Nixon, Part I: The Setup 11. Downing Nixon, Part II: The Execution 12. In from the Cold 13. Poppy’s Proxy and the Saudis 14. Poppy’s Web 15. The Handoff 16. The Quacking Duck 17. Playing Hardball 18. Meet the Help 19. The Conversion 20. The Skeleton in W.’s Closet 21. Shock and . . . Oil? 22. Deflection for Reelection 23. Domestic Disturbance 24. Conclusion Afterword Author’s Note Acknowledgments Notes Foreword When a governor or any state official seeks elective national office, his (or her) reputation and what the country knows about the candidate’s background is initially determined by the work of local and regional media. Generally, those journalists do a competent job of reporting on the prospect’s record. In the case of Governor George W. Bush, Texas reporters had written numerous stories about his failed businesses in the oil patch, the dubious land grab and questionable funding behind a new stadium for Bush’s baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and his various political contradictions and hypocrisies while serving in Austin. I was one of those Texas journalists. I spent about a decade trying to find accurate information on Bush’s record in the Texas National Guard. My curiosity had been prompted by his failure to adequately answer a question I had asked...
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...Recruitment Plan and Selection Method | Course Project – Assignment 2 | Qiana C. Weaver – HR 590 | HR Receptionist Job Ad Job Title: | Human Resource Receptionist | Department: | Human Resource | Location: | Orland Park, IL | Description: This position is responsible for performing human resource related duties at the administrative level, answering incoming calls and directing calls to appropriate associates.A teammate in this position must have the ability to: * Perform data entry of payroll including the handling of teammate inquiries regarding payroll, teammate time and attendance maintenance, and time off requests. * Scan and data entry of confidential file documents into on-base employee files. * Answer telephone and direct the caller to the appropriate teammate. * Sign-in and notify appropriate teammates of guest arrival. * Maintain badge system and create replacement badges. * Sort incoming mail by department and prepare outgoing mail for mail carrier. * Create divisional articles and PowerPoint presentations for the company magazine, bulletin boards, and divisional communication tools. * Communicate company policies and practices (as appropriate) to supervisors and teammates. * Organize special projects which may include, but are not limited to; annual holiday events, philanthropy assignments, health and wellness projects and events. | Qualifications: * Have a high school diploma or GED. * Have excellent verbal and written communication...
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...|HOW JACK WELCH RUNS GE | |A Close-up Look at How America's #1 Manager Runs GE | |Whisked by chopper from New York City, Jack Welch arrives early at the (GE) training center at Croton-on-Hudson. He scoots down to The | |Pit--the well of a bright, multitiered lecture hall--peels off his blue suit jacket, and drapes it over one of the swivel seats. | | | |This is face-to-face with Jack, not so much as the celebrated chairman and chief executive of GE, the company he has made the most valuable| |in the world, but rather as Professor Welch, coach and teacher to 71 high-potential managers attending a three-week development course. | | | |The class sits transfixed as Welch's laser-blue eyes scan the auditorium. He hardly appears professorial. With his squat, muscular, | |five-foot, eight-inch frame, pasty complexion, and Boston accent, the 62-year-old balding man looks and sounds more like the guy behind the| |wheel of a bus on Beacon Hill. And he isn't there to deliver a monologue...
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