...Max Pasamonte Nika Cavat Noir 10/22/13 Clarkson I swear it feels like every night I come to this bar. It smells like shit, and it’s so dark I can’t even see who’s sitting at the booth in the far corner. I can’t tell if this rotting fish smell is coming from the ocean outside the window or from the kitchen in the back. This fucking bartender won’t even acknowledge my existence. All he cares for are these sluts at the bar and his “best friend,” Derek. Derek is supposed to be my best friend, my blood brother. He has no respect for his job, look at him. We are supposed to be on call! I’m in uniform, the patrol car is outside, and somehow during our entrance he has changed into his nightclothes and picked up another two girls. He drags them in to this the fucking bar, sits on my right and has both girls sit on his right. What a selfish fuck? Not that I really need a woman’s company, after all, we’re on call. But how he can be so ignorant to have them sit to his right, stealing both of their attention. Listen to them laughing at his pathetic jokes. He’s an animal. Look at this bartender laughing is ass off, what does he want to suck his dick too? “Clarkson! You look tired!” The bartender shouts above the music. “Perhaps another White Russian.” “A what,” I replied? “A White Russian. That disgusting coffee shit your always drinking.” Confused with what he was referring to, I just ordered a Levitt. Nothing like the way whisky allows my conscience to sink...
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...I would first gather all the salespeople in a meeting, and see what their opinions on the new bonus structure was, and if anyone had any ideas on improvement for it. After gathering all that information I would then request a meeting with Larry, and in the meeting I would discuss the new bonus structure and ask him how he came up with this so that I can see from his perspective. I would also ask him why he only centered it on Samuel and James. After hearing his point of view I would ask him if there was any way we could possibly change the bonus structure so that everyone has a chance at achieving it. I would explain to him that we could have different bonus structures depending on the amount of sales one did fall into three different brackets, for example if someone besides Samuel or James hits at the top bracket they too are able to get the same bonus. And if they hit the middle or lower bracket they are still able to get some kind of incentive. I would also suggest that we give away weekly incentives if one person hits a certain goal for the week, thus keeping them motivated to try and hit their sales. If Larry was to have a rebuttal against my idea I would explain to him that in order for us to not have such a high turnover and downturn in sales we need to be able to make the bonus achievable for everyone and not just for Samuel and James, and keep all the sales people motivated. As for keeping the significant turnover and downturn in the sales department, I would...
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...McDonald. Thomas’s boss Frank Davis hadn’t expected to choose Green as the new senior market specialist, and he was very dissatisfied with Green’s work style and performance three months after the promotion. After being informed that Frank Davis had emailed McDonald about his concerns about Green’s performance, Green was getting really worried about his situation and not sure how to explain his perspective to McDonald. I’m going to analyze the issue for Green and suggest solutions to solve the problem. Conclusion and Recommendation: Green had strong ambition and willingness to achieve a high selling growth for the company. However, Green was so concentrated on goals without observing the surrounding situation; it caused a failure for him to adapt his work style. Plus lacking a managerial experience, Green wasn’t able to look at issues based on a structural and long term view. Thus he would decide to avoid interactions with Davis after the first criticism, rather than improving his performance and rebuilding the relationship with Davis. In addition, both roles that Green and Davis had were dependent upon collecting information; however, it seemed that Green didn’t submit to Davis’s request at all when he was required to send information. Besides that, Davis and Green’s divergence in work style and personalities had also contributed to the problem. Green prefers to deliver his ideas directly to clients and talk through issues face to face, while Davis would rather to prepare...
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...primarily on class and determined by socio-economic status, wealth and ultimately the class structure of the 1640’s. As Antony Fletcher states, ‘popular support was crucial to the parliamentarians’ strength.’ (Source 8) The word ‘popular’ highlights the important emphasis on the masses and that class was a deciding factor. It was the middle sort who made up the mass of the population and therefore to say their support is crucial is also to say that stereotypically, the middle sort were those who fought for and supported the ideology of, parliament. The ‘spontaneous enthusiasm of the yeoman families’(source 8) to fight in battle for the Puritan oligarchy reiterates how the middle sect were fighting on behalf of parliament because of their status in society. Source 8 agrees with the fact that those who fought for Parliament did so, because of class as a determining factor; men like ‘tradesman Nehemiah Wallington… clothier Samuel Priestley… and townsman John Coulton, sustained the parliamentarian cause in the field.’(Source 8) These entrepreneurial men, were independent from the kind and could survive without inherited wealth. They had generated their own background of wealth through hard work and innovative ideas, and fought for parliament because they did not need to rely on the king for their continued success. Their class – as the middle sect, fought for parliament because the hierarchical structure was something they regarded as unimportant to their success and in some ways, even hindered...
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...be interpreted as a statement from the perspective of a critical theorist (Green 2004) and if left unchallenged this statement would prove absolute. However, using a modernist perspective it can be argued that understanding would lead to quantification (Hatch, 2006) that could in turn, lead to greater efficiency. Solely from referencing the two theories above and the 2 ways of looking at a single statement we can ascertain that a combination of perspectives gives us a greater understanding than a single perspective. This essay explores how using a multi perspective approach would provide the individual with a more comprehensive and well ronded understanding to organisations, an increased capacity to understand how to better embrace structure and its implications and the holistic simplification and explaination of cultural effects. It also brings to light the conflicting nature of these theories and its inherant biasness. The first advantage of using a multi-perspective approach to understanding an organisation would be that it provides us with a more comprehensive and well-rounded understanding to organisations. This greater understanding begins with the internalisation of the different perspective’s ontology and epistemology, which are the assumptions about the nature of reality and the method in which knowledge is attained respectively (Marianne, 2002). The modernist epistemology is positivism, which states that “truth is discovered through valid conceptualisation...
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...simple bridge truss was the first structure I ever analyzed. The simple combination of beams that could hold cars, trains, and trucks over long spans of water fascinated me. Having the tools to analyze the loads on the truss further increased my interest in structures. I encountered the bridge in a textbook for my first engineering class. Knowing that the professor, Mr. John Doe, was a tough teacher, I asked him for the textbook so I could study and get ready for the class over the summer. Just arrived from Belize, I was determined to succeed. In class we learned about forces on simple members and then we put the members together to form a simple truss. At this point I had almost decided that structural engineering was the career for me. From there the class just took off: We went on to frames, distributed loads, considered friction; basically we were incorporating real world considerations into structural members. I loved the practical, problem solving aspects of the field. At UC my classes were even more advanced. In my analysis and design classes, I especially enjoyed studying steel design because we not only learned the use of the load resistance factor design but also applied that knowledge — I designed a four-story building. The professor was a practicing engineer, and he always related the subject to real life steel structures he had engineered, for example, the SB Medical Center, an all steel building with a base isolated campus. This is the kind of project on...
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...top of the company. Having him on top of everything else was one of the major factors that Apple did so well as a company. Steve Jobs was the inventor who was always praised for how well he handled his employers. After his passing, however, Timothy Cook has taken over. Cook knows he has a hard position to uphold and is not attempting to come up with new things to keep Apple ahead of its monopolies and ensure they continue to have a good reputation as well as making a huge profit. Because the chain of command would be far too much responsibility and varied for one person, the power is distributed out amongst different directors and heads of different sectors. Steve Jobs would employ people in different sectors to make serious decisions depending on what they’re strengths are. He delegated people to different positions so that Apple would have experts in every subdivision. Apple would be nothing without their loyal customers who worship the company. Because the company is exclusive, things such as a new store opening attracts fans from all around the world. Apple ensure that whatever they do is done at the biggest and best it can be but insist to give away as little as possible information about new projects. This secrecy manages to keep the exclusivity that Apple maintain on upholding. Having this sort of custom allows Apple to become world dominant and helps them succeed their goal to be the best. Similarly, Tesco has a hierarchical structure because it has many layers....
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...Organisational Structure For an organisation to be successful it needs a strong organisational structure. How the organisation is set up will directly impact the success or failure of the company. They need to be structured and organised in a way that will meet their goals and needs. Even though the organisational structure is focus on the company’s goal it also dictates how to report priorities and strategies of upper management. The organisational structure is a hierarchy of people and its functions. The organisational structure tells you the character of an organisation and the values it believes in. Therefore, when you do business with an organisation or getting into a new job, it is always a great idea to get to know and understand their organisational structure. Depending on the organisational values and the nature of the business, organisations tend to adopt one of the following structures for management purposes. Although the organisation follows a particular structure, there can be departments and teams following some other organisational structure in exceptional cases. However, some organisations may also follow a combination of different organisational structures as well. Follow this, I will now refer some of the Organisation Structures used nowadays and explain how can they benefit or damage their business, referring their advantages and disadvantages. Flat Organisational Structures use a reduce number of levels, and a wide span of control, which means...
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...Lisa Jones Effective communication is important in every organization and establishing the right structure is key to having a successfully running company. Some of the things that I will discuss is the type of organizational model the best describes my current organization. Also how the organization lets their employees know of any information that they may need to know or how they involve the employees when formulating solutions to problems in the company. Then we will discuss the techniques that my current company uses to share information and how these techniques would apply in a health care work environment. Then last but not least how technology plays a role in all of this. The organizational model that best describes my organization is Distribute Authority. Distribute Authority is an organizational structure that establishes a chain of command determining each position's responsibilities and relationships to others. Authority can be centralized, where managers or supervisors make the majority of decisions, or decentralized, which includes many positions in the decision-making process. We have several leads who a department reports to then we have the supervisor that oversees the progress of the entire building to ensure that we stay on track, then we have a guy directly above him that oversees the progress of both buildings and then he reports to the owner. This structure can sometime work very well but then when you have leads who have favorites and will basically get...
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...Introduction Organizations have a need for all types of skills and abilities. The total burden of labor in an organization is divided up so that people with different levels of intelligence and skills can each find their own productive place. Management issues in organizational structure Line and staff employees The first management consideration is to examine !low employees are distinguished from each other in terms of how they' fit in' to a typical organizational structure - the issue of line and staff employees. Different specialist divisions and departments within an organization contain a predominance of either line or staff employees. Line employees Those those are directly responsible for achieving the organization's objectives. Line employees are therefore found in departments that are responsible for producing, selling or servicing the organization's products (E.g. in operations, marketing and after-sales servicing). Staff employees Are responsible for supporting the line employees in their tasks. Staffs are therefore found in departments that advise, support or provide expertise, such as personnel, research and development and finance. Example: A business producing cars is known for its car-making activities. Its primary objective is to produce and market cars in order to make profit. The company needs its staff functions because of its line function; The personnel and finance functions would have no purpose at all unless...
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... John has talked to you, a business consultant, for advice and a consultancy report. This will help his consideration and his discussion with Graham and Andrew. Task: You undertake some research and prepare a business report. Based on their situation, you analyse and evaluate two or three specific types of ownership structure that you think are suitable, outlining their advantages and disadvantages. You then make recommendation of ONE most appropriate ownership structure based on your findings. You also advise him on legal requirements for establishing the new business under the recommended ownership structure. Your business report consists of: * Cover page * Table of contents * Executive summary * Relevant types of ownership structures * Recommendation * Legal requirements for establishing the new business * Bibliography * Appendices (if appropriate) Please note: In the section of “Relevant types of ownership structures”, you 1) exclude those types of ownership structures that are obviously not suitable and give brief reasons; and 2) focus on two or three specific types of ownership structures that you think are relevant to their...
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...1. Strategy is an action to attain one or more of the organization’s goals and integrate organizational activities utilizing and allocating the scarce resources within the organizational environment to achieve a desired state in the future. 2. Robin Hood is faced with many strategic problems within his organization. Robin Hood’s organization is in the business of robbing the rich and giving to the poor. This is not a typical organization in that the members must live outside the law. The organization started small with elite members who each had a specialized job. The popularity and success of the group has caused it to grow and recruit anyone that wants to join. This has caused many problems for Robin Hood. Discipline was becoming harder to enforce because of the sheer size of the group. The group is also faced with lower revenue and increased costs. The organization was beginning to exceed the food capacity of the forest so supplies had to be obtained from outlying villages. Some of the other issues that Robin Hood is faced with are whether or not to impose a fixed transit tax, what to do about the growing strength of the Sheriff, and if he should accept the Barons offer to join in freeing King Richard. 3. The role of the organizational leader as strategist and articulator of global goals is to take command and lead the team as a whole. Robin Hood needs to define the organization’s mission statement. This will layout the overall goals for the organization and provide framework...
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...According to Turner the ritual process involves of three different stages. The primary stage deals with segregation. Segregation is basically done by creating a sense of separation from ordinary social structures. Moreover, one is separated from the everyday flow of activities, involving a passage through a threshold state or limen into a ritual world removed from everyday notions of time and space. In other words, the participant is made to feel detached from the social structure surrounding him/her as well as the daily flow of activities. The second stage is known as luminal stage. In this particular stage the participant is outside of ‘normal’ society. Moreover, the participant is no longer a part of the society and has reached a neutral stage. In other words, one imagines an alternative sphere of equality, unity and transcendence. The final stage comprises of incorporation. The participant in this stage returns back to the society and becomes united or combined into an organized body. In other words, it’s like re-entering into the everyday world according to him. Rituals and rites of passage guide the development and realization of interpersonal bonds. Turner argues that it is this bonding that is the core of society and social values, meanings, and functions. This is a contrasting approach to other scholars who usually view ritual as in service to the social order. The passage through a liminal state tempers the pleasure of the individual...
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...Name:Amos ( Liu Xiang Nan ) LDRS 650 VH GD11 My own thoughts about Reframing organizations Structural frame According to our text book, the structural frame is the most oldest and the most popular ways of thinking about organizations. This frame also provide us an angle to organize an better organization. Like what is the author telling us in the text book “These supposition reflect confidence in rationality and a faith that a suitable array of formal roles and responsibilities will minimized distracting personal static and maximize people’s performance on the job”(Bolman & Deal. p. 43). An good organization should be like an accurate machine, every kind of organizations should find the most effective structure for its self. Human Resource frame At the beginning of chapter 6 the writer telling us a story of strike that really happened in China. The story told us a truth, persons in factory is not a machine, we could not dispatch them with low pay and make them working much more than they should. Last semester we learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs in leadership class, we all know about that persons have its own need to satisfied, our text book also mentioned about it “Maslow's view is widely accepted and enormously influential in managerial practice” (p. 122) Political frame This part in the book tell us that we should have a kind of politics thinking while we face some task, the politic is a negative word for most of the people, it means a kind of disapproval. But...
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...in the following sentences: (a) What is the value of computer education these days? (b) What is the value of this mobile set? (c) Value our friendship. (iii) Faulty Translation: A manager receives much information from his superiors and subordinates and he translates it for all the employees according to their level of understanding. Hence, the information has to be moulded according to the understanding or environment of the receiver. If there is a little carelessness in this process, the faulty translation can be a barrier in the communication. (iv) Unclarified Assumptions: It has been observed that sometimes a sender takes it for granted that the receiver knows some basic things and, therefore, it is enough to tell him about the major subject matter. This point of view of the sender is correct to some extent with reference to the daily communication, but it is absolutely wrong in case of some special message, (v) Technical Jargon: Generally, it has been seen that the people working in an enterprise are connected with some special technical group who have their separate technical language. Their communication is not so simple as to be understood by everybody. Hence, technical language can be a barrier in communication. This technical group includes industrial engineers, production development manager, quality controller, etc. (vi) Body Language and Gesture Decoding: When the communication is passed on with the help of body language and gestures...
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