...as the land of opportunity where an individual can go as far as their own merit takes them. The opportunities to be successful are endless and one just has to work hard to achieve them. This is based on the idea of meritocracy where individuals are only measured on the basis of their intellectual contributions, “divorced” identity, social status, gender, race, religion, and other characteristics. But this is only an illusion a so called myth that individuals are brought up to believe. In “Horatio Alger”, Harlon Daltons is able to break down this myth of meritocracy that include how we are judged solely on merits, have a fair opportunity to establish those merits, and how merit will bring success. Ruth Conniff in “Women Losing Ground” is able to support the myth of meritocracy that Dalton has established by explaining how women are still suffering from this myth that America has created. Dalton and Conniff are able to debunk the myth of meritocracy and help those that believe in meritocracy understand the inequality the myth has created in American culture. The idea of meritocracy is stating that an individual will not get judged and that “each of us is judged solely on her or his own merits” (Dalton (Alger theory)). But “sometimes we are judged on a different scale”... “favored...and ignored all on the basis of our race” (Dalton). How does this compare to only being judged on his or her own merits because all that is viewed is people being singled out on their appearance...
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...know merit pay involves giving employees a permanent pay raise based on past performance. Often the company’s performance appraisal system is used to determine performance levels and the employees are awarded a raise, such as a 2% increase in pay. I worked in a hospital and with nurses in an emergency room that got this exact raise. They had a cap that they could hit where they maxed out once they had been there for over 33 years they stopped getting the raise. The ever looming and potential problem with merit pay is that employees come to expect pay increases. This means it will be more so of an expectation and less so something earned. If you know something is coming either way, would you work harder for it? Not to sound lazy but time is valuable and why put in more time than everyone else for the same rewards? The only way to make merit pay more effective depends on making it truly dependent on performance and designing a relatively objective appraisal system. Without the appraisal system it is literally pointless. Ultimately, to be successful, the merit pay program must ensure that awards provided to the best performers will be substantially greater than increases awarded to average, or below-average performers. Merit pay when managed correctly provides a huge advantage for employers in my eyes. Merit pay helps an employer differentiate between performance of high and low performing employees and reward the performance of the higher performers. I believe that merit pay is...
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...Development of Naturalistic Style: Italian Painting Byzantine art was prominent from the 5th century up until the 14th century, extracting influence from ancient Greece. Although, in the early 14th century, the Italian artists began to break out of that style of art and began a new naturalistic style. From the 1300s and on, this new style began to spread its influence throughout Italy, while still retaining some traces of maniera greca .This transition from Greek style, seen in Bonaventura Berlinghieri’s work St. Francis ( Church of San Francesco of Pescia), of c. 1236, to a more naturalistic style used partly in Cimabue’s work Virgin and Child Enthroned ( Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) of c. 1280, and more clearly and deliberately in Giotto’s Virgin and Child Enthroned ( Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) of c. 1305-1310, seems to come to a halt, or even revert back to maniera greca, when we look at a work of art done in Russia in the early 16th century. This work of art is known as the Enthroned Mother of God with Saints (The Menil Collection, Houston). Maniera greca is used to describe art that is derived from ancient Greece. Some of the most common aesthetic qualities are deep contrasts of highlights and shadows, gilding, lack of naturalistic qualities, and the use of icons. One of the most popular examples of classic Byzantine style is the work done by Bonaventura Berlinghieri in 1236, St. Francis, which incorporates common aspects of maniera greca. Berlinghieri...
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...Pay for Performance through Strategic Planning Introduction Because studies have shown time and again that pay represents one of the most important factors involved in retaining qualified employees, it is little wonder that there has been a great deal of attention focused on how best to compensate employees for their performance in recent years. Moreover, because employee performance and productivity is inextricably related to organizational profitability, these issues have assumed new relevance and importance in the current economic environment. There have been some mixed reviews concerning pay-for-performance approaches to enhancing employee performance, though, that suggest there is more involved than simply throwing money at top performers. Despite these constraints, many authorities suggest that pay-for-performance programs have a lot to offer organizations seeking to identify better ways to improve employee performance. In this regard, Miller, Hildreth and Rabin (2012) note that, “Individual incentives have a central role to play in the success of most conceptual schemes related to performance. Such plans, while very difficult, have large possibilities; seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome if the emphasis moves to the employee's relative needs for power, affiliation, and achievement” (p. 230). These are tall orders for any human resource manager and an organization’s leadership, though, and the fact remains that measuring individual performance is a complicated...
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...Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ________________________________________ Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. ________________________________________ “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing \change in our very notion of art.” Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931 Le Conquete de l’ubiquite Preface When Marx undertook his critique of the capitalistic mode of production, this mode was in its infancy. Marx directed his efforts in such a way as to give them prognostic value. He went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic...
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...University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Management Department Faculty Publications Management Department 1-1-2014 Pay-for-Performance’s Effect on Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological and Economic Principles Toward a Contingency Perspective Anthony J. Nyberg University of South Carolina, Anthony.Nyberg@moore.sc.edu Jenna R. Pieper University of Nebraska-Lincoln, jpieper@unl.edu Charlie O. Trevor University of Wisconsin-Madison, ctrevor@bus.wisc.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/managementfacpub Nyberg, Anthony J.; Pieper, Jenna R.; and Trevor, Charlie O., "Pay-for-Performance’s Effect on Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological and Economic Principles Toward a Contingency Perspective" (2014). Management Department Faculty Publications. Paper 111. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/managementfacpub/111 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Management Department at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Management Department Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Journal of Management 2014 ; doi: 10.1177/0149206313515520 Copyright © 2013 Anthony J. Nyberg, Jenna R. Pieper, and Charlie O. Trevor. Published by Sage Publications for Southern Management Association. Used by permission. digitalcommons...
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...and last but not least, Friends. So let’s get started with Outdoors. Outdoors is one of three categories of things I do after school there are many different things I do that are outdoors but for you the readers sake I will name a couple, Scouts is the first one now I have been a scout for 4 years now and I always enjoy it we do a lot of cool trips and campouts, Now scouts has been something that I find interesting it’s a combination of sports and physical labor and learning half of scouts is about learning like you learn a lot about different things for example I have learned a ton of different things in scouts that I would have never learned in school like in scouts I learned CPR which is part of the first aid merit badge and also its required in a couple other merit badges, I have also learned many different poisons plants and trees and berries and also a couple of edible ones, mainly we learned how to survive in a lot of scenarios like storms and animal attacks, also in outdoors I love to go on hikes if I have the time because I love to be able to see all the nature in its purest form I have seen a lot of different ecosystems and different big landmarks. School the one topic that is going to be short mainly because I can’t talk that much about homework and projects but I am going to try my hardest. The days I have homework I really try to put it off to the side as long as I can because then I have to stay up late and do it so I didn’t have to waste any of my day working on...
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...Running head: ACTION INQUIRY RESEARCH PAPER- MERIT PAY Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Jennifer Ponton Grand Canyon EDA 535 July 01, 2012 Action Inquiry Research Paper- School Finance Statement of the Problem This past spring thousands of teachers protested at the Louisiana State Capital to prevent Louisiana lawmakers from passing an educational reform bill proposed by Governor Bobby Jindall that would change the face of public education in Louisiana forever. Many superintendents and school personnel were relieved of their professional responsibilities on the days they protested hoping that they could sway the governor and the lawmakers from passing the bill. The bill was passed even without the support of many educational leaders and lawmakers in Louisiana. The laws passed by Louisiana lawmakers read like a conservative education reformer’s wish list. Teacher tenure in Louisiana after three years of employment was eliminated and replaced with teachers receiving a “highly effective rating for five out of six consecutive years of teaching. Back to back “ineffective rating will result in a teacher being fired. Seniority will no longer be a dominant factor in layoff decisions. In fact most decisions involving teacher employment and pay will now be the responsibility of both the principal and the superintendent of school. Before Governor Jindall’s reform plan it was the responsibility of the local school board. The reform proposed by the governor...
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...SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINSITRATION BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMISNITRATION Semester: Fall 2015 – 2016 Course Title Performance & Compensation Course Code HURM402 TITLE OF Case Study APPRAISING PERFORMANCE AT PRECISION In submitting this work, I am confirming that it is all my own work, or the work of my group. I have correctly acknowledged the work of others by using references. Once my work is submitted to Turnitin, it becomes part of the database that subsequent works are checked against. Full Name of Student: Submission Date: Nov 27th, 2015 Assessment: CASE-2 Semester: Fall Academic Year: 2015 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Date of Case-2 Handover Nov 20th, 2015 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Time Period Start time: 02:00 PM End time: 03:00 PM ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Duration of Case-2 Handover 2 weeks (Due Date: 4th Dec, 2015) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Number of Case-2 Handover Pages 7 pages (Including this cover sheet-1) ------------------------------------------------- Marking Scheme: Question | Score | Marks | CLO | Achieved | 1 | 7.5 | | 5 | □ Yes □ No | 2 | 7.5 |...
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...clear definition of beauty. The same type of argument comes into focus when one considers literature. Dictionary.com defines literature as “written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit,” but this brings into question how one is to judge whether a work has greater or enduring artistic value. This question is addressed in Plato’s Ion. In Ion, Plato addresses whether it is through experience and skill or through divine intervention that Ion judges the merit of works. Through an explication of the text, one can consider whether it is knowledge or preference that leads to determining value through literary criticism. The dialogue opens with Socrates speaking to Ion who is a rhapsodist, or a professional performer of epic poetry. The reader learns that Ion is a skilled rhapsodist as he has just won first place among competitors at the festival of Asclepius. It is upon this knowledge and skill that Ion bases his affinity for Homer. Ion makes the claim that Homer is a superior poet and because of this, Ion is better able to interpret his works as compared to his inability to interpret other poets’ works. When this claim is made, Socrates goes through a series of deductions in order to determine how Ion has come to realize the merit of Homer’s works. Unlike Ion, Socrates believes that Ion’s judgment is based on divine intervention as opposed to any real skill. In order to prove his argument, Socrates equates the rhapsodist to artists or sculptors...
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...Sample Scholarship Essays Updated on Thursday 18 February 2010 (see below for url) This section contains three sample scholarship essays: 1. Scholarship Essay Sample One - Crabiel 2. Scholarship Essay Sample Two - National Merit Scholar 3. Scholarship Essay Sample Three - Fulbright Scholarship Essay One - Crabiel Scholarship Winner, won $3,000 scholarship Like Mr. Crabiel, I literally work tirelessly in many academic and leadership roles. I sleep no more than six hours a night because of my desire to expertly meet my many commitments. Throughout my life, I have worked as long and as hard as I possibly can to effect beneficial changes in both school and society. During the summer of tenth grade, I took a number theory course at Johns Hopkins University with students from Alaska, California, and Bogota, Colombia. Similarly, during the summer following eleventh grade, I was one of ninety students from New Jersey selected to attend the Governor's School in the Sciences at Drew University. At Drew, I took courses in molecular orbital theory, special relativity, cognitive psychology, and I participated in an astrophysics research project. For my independent research project, I used a telescope to find the angular velocity of Pluto. With the angular velocity determined, I used Einstein's field equations and Kepler's laws to place an upper bound on the magnitude of the cosmological constant, which describes the curvature of space and the rate of the universe's expansion. In addition to...
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...is the Regional Scholarship, the award representing the full cost of nonresident tuition. Students can accept multiple scholarships offered through other departments at Southern Miss or scholarships offered through sources outside the university. Such departmental or outside scholarships may be combined with Admissions-based scholarships. Click the plus signs below to expand the sections and get complete details. General Admissions-Based Scholarship Opportunities Consideration Deadline: February 1 National Merit Scholarships Opportunities National Merit Semifinalist Scholarship Students designated as National Merit Semifinalists will receive the National Merit Semifinalist Scholarship, a scholarship equivalent to the value of tuition (and nonresident fees, if applicable) for four years. Presidential National Merit Scholarship Students progressing to National Merit Finalist status will receive the Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship, which is designed to cover tuition (and nonresident fees, if applicable), campus housing, a meal plan and...
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...since they possess the power to do everything in the interest and benefit of the state (Held, 201). Various democratic principles are evident in the office of the President, congressmen, and the common citizens of the United States. Nevertheless, the constitution bars leaders from exhibiting the characteristics of Machiavelli’s prince via laying down a system of power checks and balances. Numerous concepts put forward by Machiavelli can presently be practiced by the President because he remains as the most senior leader of the nation. Moreover, Machiavelli’s most outstanding aspect of democracy is that a capable leader should do all he can in his capacity to remain in power. Evidently, numerous presidents in many nations share this wish and express their willingness to go to severe measures to retain their offices. Politicians; for instance are willing to spend huge amounts of dollars at each campaign to clinch power. Using his wide ranging powers, the President is capable of making continuous approvals or barring bills from becoming laws. His views concerning the nation can be implemented via a number of ways including veto power and pardoning of convicts. Machiavelli’s prince cannot be wholly be exercised in the American system of democracy given the constitutional laws established...
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...Machiavelli's Tiger: Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore's Authoritarian Regime By Uri Gordon (student at the Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel) Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. Lee Kuan Yew, 6.10.1997 Introduction ‘History’, observes Adorno, ‘is the unity of continuity and discontinuity’. Even a basic awareness to this reality should be enough to prevent anyone – especially the new sojourner into the realm of political science – from making coarse comparisons between past and present. And yet, sometimes the picture is so compelling, so painfully clear, that it simply cannot be ignored. Faced with it, all one can do is carefully explore the contours of the ancient and the new, hoping to retain enough responsibility to open his eyes to the differences when they manifest themselves. This is what the current paper sets out to do. Though hundreds of years and thousands of miles stand between 16th century Italy and 20th century Singapore, between the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli and the statecraft of Lee Kuan Yew, the similarities are extraordinary. This paper will argue that the political views and actions of Singapore’s ruling elite – more precisely, those of the country’s ‘founding father’ Lee Kuan Yew – can be powerfully interpreted through an application of Machiavellian principles. This interpretation takes place on two levels. First, the political actions of Singapore’s...
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..." Rage--Goddess, sing the range of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feast for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end..." (Iliad, 77) Fate plays an extensive role in the character's lives of Homer's epic, The Iliad. Homer not only shares the destiny of his characters with his audience, but He shares it with the characters themselves through the prophecies made by the Greek gods. There are many possible reasons why Homer reveals the final moments in the first pages of his book. Homer's original audience would have already been familiarized with the story and so to have the characters balanced with the audience, Homer reveals the characters fates' to them. This act of balancing the knowledge of fate is what gives the characters their tragedy and their appeal as they push forward heroically to their pre-destined doom. Knowing what the future holds will certainly affect one's present actions. It is only logical that the knowledge of one's fate will bring upon that individual a different perspective on life. Achilles made a pact with the gods that he would have a short and fulfilling life rather than a long and meaningless one. To Achilles, achievement and greatness was more important than the time he spent in this world. He went to troy knowing that it was going to be his death...
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