...success of the program. Those factors were finding the right mentor, Aligning instructional-support efforts and Partnering with principals. The first factor is finding the right mentor. Barlin points out that first and for most a good mentor has to first be good and effective teacher. The problem is that many schools and distracts are not equip or have the proper structure to asses who is highly effective or strong in student outcome. In those schools that can the problem them becomes willingness to pull that teacher out of the classroom to mentor. Aligning instructional-support efforts is the next key factor in a successful program. Barlin makes a connection with aligning instructional support with that of a communal tree. Everyone want to water it, in hopes to see it thrive but if there is not proper coordination then the tree will drown. Here the new teacher is the tree and the those willing to help water the tree are the literacy and math coaches, university supervisors, data specialists, special education counselors, technology coordinators, different frameworks and policies. The mentor and distract frameworks are there to support and coordinate all that want to water the tree so that the tree does not drown. Lastly, a program needs to partner with the principal in order to work. Barlin points out in the article,, that the job of the principal is evolving and demanding, often at times coming without...
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...15, 2014 For this discussion board post we are to discuss the topics of Agency Law and the different principals and ideas that go along with it. There are three types of principles that exist; they are disclosed, undisclosed, and partially disclosed principals. A disclosed principle refers to when there is a 3rd party involved. The person/people are not hidden by the company to the person or persons that they are working with. For example, Let’s say you have a bill and you have not paid it, the company that you had the bill will originally may turn your account over to another collection agency and they would in turn contact you and let you know that your account has been turned over to their company to collect the debt on behalf of the original company. When it comes to an undisclosed principle, it’s just that, not disclosed, no information is given on that agent. They still are working either on their own behalf or through a company and do not want their information public. For example, if I was under an undisclosed principle I would not go into a meeting and say, “I am here on behalf of Yellowstone National Park”. This information would not be given out. For a partially disclosed principle, at the time of the deal, the person may know that the other person he is dealing with is portraying themselves as an Agent but does not know who the main source or principal is. For example, if I am speaking on behalf of a national park and I am trying to build a new park, if the...
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...The Role of Leadership in Advancing Student Learning Marzano (2003), shared three principles of effective leadership for change. He uses research and his experiences in schools across the country to form the principles and descriptions. Using research wisely, and not ignoring it can lead to the best of times in education. The three principles are formed from an overview of characteristics associated with effective leaders as well as their behaviors. Principle 1. Leadership for change is most effective when carried out by a small group of educators with the principal functioning as a strong cohesive force. Principal plus a strong leadership team operate as key players and working with a dedicated group of classroom teachers because teachers must be involved in day-to-day decisions that affect their day-to-day lives (Marzano, R. J., 2003). For example in creating a guaranteed and viable curriculum, it is important that the principal assumes the role of visible head of this reform effort with the ability to mentor and guide direction for a leadership team and all teachers. Time is a factor that yields success when information is shared in a routine and timely manner. Even though obstacles may arise, the principal can offer adequate information in time for planning the curriculum teachers are responsible for, such as assessments and activities for higher order thinking from students. Effective leadership is present when teachers know the principal is time conscious of...
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...teacher and leader. We learned to function as a family unit when your parents instructed you to learn how to cook and clean. These actions allow for the parents to be freed to do other task. Performing these tasks showed us how to follow leadership and by performing these task lightened to load for our first leader – our parents. This is the same principal that applies now as adults. We learn to perform task at our jobs, this is to uplift the company and the reward for us is a pay check weekly, monthly, or biweekly. This should be the same attitude we present as Christians. If we believe that we are all one body in Christ we should be able to do anything we can to glorify Christ. Assisting our leadership is no different. If we believe that God has placed us in a church where there is leadership that follow God’s principals we should understand that anything that is asked of us as members comes straight from God and is utilized to edify the body of Christ. Sometimes we get stuck in our own way of thinking – the world’s way. But if we look at it in a biblical since we should understand that the things that we do for Christ will last. Cleaning the church, beautifying the church, are a couple things that bring God glory. The church leadership is unable to do it alone. We as members and leaders should always try and find ways to lessen the load. When we are presented with a problem we should...
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...Addressing Dysfunctional Thinking Leadership is not always about the easy conversations, but rather is demonstrated when people demonstrate the ability to have the difficult conversations. Rick Defour, (2002) noted, “One of the National Association of Elementary School Principals' six standards for what principals should know and be able to do calls on principals to put student and adult learning at the center of their leadership and to serve as the lead learner (2001)” (para. 17). If this premise is true, then it is safe to suggest that this situation is a learning opportunity for the entire community to understand who is in charge of the building. Alienating staff simply because of their experience within a particular building with complete disregard for their skill or knowledge level is destructive to morale and puts all the perceived power in the wrong hands. Of course Mr. Carroll might want to be conscious of Mrs. Douglas’s concerns, but that meeting should be centered around him telling her Mrs. Farmington is being appointed to run the Wordsmith competition. If the faculty decides who should do what and when and can keep others from participating at will, then the point of having a lead learner or leader in place at all becomes meaningless. Principal Carroll has to demonstrate his leadership by understanding he has to lead the entire school community and not just a select few. In every situation the right people with the right experience, attitude, and...
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...Tournaments and Piece Rates Revisited: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Premium Incentives Werner Guth Rene Levnsky Kerstin Pully Ori Weiselz June 22, 2010 Abstract Tournaments represent an increasingly important component of organizational compensation systems. While prior research focused on xed-prize tournaments, i.e., on tournaments where the prize or prize sum to be awarded is set in advance, we introduce a new type of tournament into the literature: premium incentives. While premium incentives, just like xed-prize tournaments, are based on relative performance, the prize to be awarded is not set in advance but is a function of the rm's success: the prize is high if the rm is successful and low if it is not successful. Relying on a simple model of cost minimization, we are able to show that premium incentives outperform xed-prize tournaments as well as piece rates. Our theoretical result is qualitatively con rmed by a controlled laboratory experiment and has important practical implications for the design of organizational incentive systems. JEL Classi cation: C72, C91, J33 Keywords: Tournaments, Incentives, Economic experiments Max Planck Institute for Economics, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany. yEberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Nauklerstrasse 47, 72074 Tubingen, Germany. zThe Hebrew University, Center for the Study of Rationality, Giv'at Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel...
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...1 Introduction Here you can write the assignment. You can also present yourselves. If there are certain remarks to make you can put them here. 2 Structure of the report Here you describe the structure of the report. Also you can explain the way of working, the approach to deal with the assignment and you're research. By describing this all coming chapters are not falling out of the air. 3 Research on RIA's? Here you present your research undertaken on the internet. If you want to put additional information in some appendices that's fine. Again: It is important if you state your ideas or findings to give some "evidence" by referring to internet or pages in a book (do not forget to mention the book). 3.1 Definition of a RIA 3.2 Technologies in the 3.3 Our choices 4 Site objectives What do we want to reach with this application (or website); What do we want to support and why? Where are the opportunities to persue? It is important to make clear what the investor wants to achieve with the site (or application). End this chapter with a summarization (requirements) and draw conclusions. 5 Environment analysis Which sites (applications) did you investigate (and why these?). What did we investigate? What were the examples or parts we liked (give proof to us)? What were the examples or parts we did not like? End this chapter with a summarization (requirements) and draw conclusions. You can give proof of statements you make...
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...Click here for the steps to follow Application for Selection Certificate Principal Applicant – Spouse or de facto spouse INSTRUCTIONS How to complete this form Answer all questions accurately. If you run out of space, please finish your answer on a separate sheet marked with the number of the section of the form to which it refers. Who is required to fill out this form? The principal applicant and the accompanying spouse or de facto spouse, if any, who are applying under one of the following subclasses (definitions on page 2): • skilled worker; • self-employed worker or entrepreneur; • foreign national in a particularly distressful situation, within the meaning of section 18c of the Regulation respecting the selection of foreign nationals: this subclass does not include refugees, persons in a similar situation, nor protected persons. Dependent children accompanying you who are aged 22 or older or who are married or de facto spouses must complete the form Application for Selection Certificate – Dependent child aged 22 or older or who is married or a de facto spouse (definitions on page 2). A child who is not a dependent must fill out this form as a principal applicant. Appendices, supporting documents and place of application submission You must send this form, along with the appendices and the necessary supporting documents to the immigration office responsible for files originating in your country. Closely examine the list of documents to append to your application for...
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...1 Introduction Marc MENOU Juillet 2007 M. MENOU / COURS D’ECONOMIE 1 TABLE DES MATIERES 11 L'économie est une science fondamentale _________________________________________________ 4 111 Une préoccupation pratique essentielle ________________________________________________ 4 112 Une problématique théorique fondamentale ____________________________________________ 5 12 L'économie est mal acceptée et mal connue ________________________________________________ 7 121 La science économique est critiquée __________________________________________________ 7 122 La science économique est refusée __________________________________________________ 10 123 La science économique est mal connue _______________________________________________ 13 1231 Des apparences superficielles ______________________________________ 14 1232 Méconnaissance de l'économique ________________________________________________ 16 1233 L'erreur humaine _____________________________________________________________ 20 13 L’explication de ce paradoxe __________________________________________________________ 22 131 Le réel ________________________________________________________________________ 22 1311 La définition du réel __________________________________________________________ 23 1312 L'existence du réel____________________________________________________________ 24 1313 La création et l’évolution du réel ________________________________________________ 24 1314 Les caractéristiques du réel _____________________________________________________...
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...Introduction “Good customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can offer promotions and slash prices to bring in as many new customers as you want, but unless you can get some of those customers to come back, your business won’t be profitable for long.” (As cited in Customer Service – 8 Rules For Good Customer Service 2009.) Excellent customer service is one of the key necessities that a business must have to run a successful enterprise. Businesses in today’s world are changing, especially in the marketing department. Weather the business is a large one, for example Wall Mart or just small local businesses that are family owned and operated, such as Wayne’s Drive Inn. The main point of any business is to focus on what the customers need is and to make sure they are satisfied with the quality of service that the business is providing. Businesses need to provide their employees on the front line with proper training, which means those employees that have contact and interact with customers on daily basis’s, weather face to face or verbally must be able to offer the amount of service required. Training is also important for business’s employees because those are the people your customers deal with, and also those employees are the face of the business. Therefore a businesses selection of employees can either make or break ones business. “Well, the Harvard Business Review reports that if you can prevent 5% of your customers from leaving you, you can increase yourbottom...
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...because it is a key to business success of any organization. In the present milieu, employee satisfaction has come under limelight due to stiff competition where organizations are trying to carve competitive advantage through the human factor. The purpose of this study is to observe the relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction and to examine the impact of both on organizational success. This study scrutinizes the effects of different factors of organization which affects the employee satisfaction. This is a cohort study in which qualitative research methodology was used. The data was collected through selfadministrated questionnaire which contains multiple choice questions and open-ended questions. Results of the principal component analysis (PCA) based on correlation matrix revealed a great deal of employees (hotel workers) satisfaction among surveyed cohorts where customers also had expressed satisfaction with existing services. Mainly environmental cleanliness, quality food and room services has played vital role in creating contentment and subsequent satisfaction among customers. From employee’s perspective, conducive working atmosphere coupled with...
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...Dodge versus Ford Motor Company case in the Michigan Supreme Court in 1919. The court ruled that the managers are required to conduct corporate activities in the best interest of the shareholders. Therefore, according to shareholder primacy theory, the corporate activities are bound by the shareholders obligations (Keay, p. 375). The shareholder primacy theory holds that the non shareholders are granted rights through contracts which in turn fulfills their interests and adequately safeguards their rights. Companies are often formed by the owners who are generally referred to as the shareholders. However, these owners appoint people to run the business on their behalf thus, leading to formation of the principal / agent relationship. The owner who is acknowledged as the principal often hires the manager who is referred to as the agent to act as a steward. However, the managers pursue own interests...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility and Accounting - A Literature Review Master thesis in Financial Accounting Fall semester 2012 Supervisor: Kristina Jonäll Author: Ulla-Christel Götherström Abstract Master Thesis in Financial Accounting, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, fall semester 2012 Author: Ulla-Christel Götherström Supervisor: Kristina Jonäll Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and Accounting - A literature review. Background and problem: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an area which has gained much attention the last 10-15 years. To satisfy various stakeholders, corporate social responsibility has increased its importance and often constitutes a substantial part of the firms´ financial reports, in spite of the fact that there are no legal requirements. However, to perform strategic CSR-reporting has become more or less compulsory for firms. The research question is: What research has been performed in the area of corporate social responsibility and accounting? Aim: The aim is to provide a structured overview of the literature in the area of corporate social responsibility and accounting regarding the years 2002-2012. The overview will provide a basis for future research and constitute a framework for focused research question. Delimitation: The focus of this study is on research published in scientific journals from 2002 until 2012. Method: A literature review was performed including peer-reviewed papers...
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...06/17/2010 Strayer University If I had to choose a leadership style then, I have to say that I believe that I represent the Human Resource style of leadership. In an effective leadership situation, the leader is a catalyst and servant whose leadership style is support, advocating, and empowerment, while in an ineffective leadership situation; the leader is a pushover, whose leadership is abdication and fraud. Human Resource Leaders believe in people and communicate that belief; they are visible and accessible; they empower, increase participation, support, share information, and move decision making down into the organization. Scratch the surface of an excellent school and you are likely to find an excellent principal. Peer into a failing school and you will find weak leadership. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. Leaders are thought to be essential for high-quality education. But is this indeed true and if so, exactly how does leadership work? Amidst the seeming certainty that leadership matters, there is much that we do not yet understand about effective educational leadership. However, the knowledge base about leadership is constantly growing. This knowledge can be used with confidence to guide leadership practice, policy, and research. It also can provide a good starting point for dialogue with diverse audience about the future of educational leadership. Like other complex human activities, leadership is difficult to pin down. It might even be unwise to narrow...
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...Leadership Styles of Northwest Middle School With every education community there are successes and challenges each organization has at its leadership level. The decisions the leadership team makes to help fulfill the school’s vision and counteract these challenges starts with the leadership styles. One may argue that the teachers and staff are the most important component. Yes, students cannot learn without teachers to teach, but the leaders are usually the first and final voice in the decision-making process. Northwest Middle School of Kansas city, Kansas has ninety-nine percent free or reduce lunch students, the poorest school in Kansas, and is considered at- risk. Four years ago the school was on the verge of being shut down with a little over two hundred students. Now, the school has six hundred-fifty students, rising test scores, outreach programs to the community, and so much more positive growth. The most recent change in leadership has led to the reformation within Northwest. Taking a look at the leadership styles and theories within Northwest, leadership teams may further help readers understand the reasons that lead to successes at the middle school. The top three leadership styles used are: participant, collaborative, and directive. Each style has similarities, differences, and the best time when it should be used. Participative Leadership There is no perfect school no matter the amount of funding or how high the tests score students may have. However, there...
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