...test by its name without any classification. Article Two: Pre-Employment Integrity Testing Organizations have used some type of integrity test for many years to determine which candidates to hire, promote, or which individuals will work best with others. An article called “Practical guidelines for implementing pre-employment integrity tests” written by Fines (2006) describes integrity tests as a way to screen-out high-risk candidates by eliminating poor work ethics and illegal action within the work environment. To complete this task, test designers have developed direct questions pertaining to their behavior concerning work or any offenses the individual may have committed. These questions are answered by either the employees or the candidates who either are working for an organization or looking to be hired. Organizations want to make sure that the test they provide is fair for all individuals who are involved. In doing so, an organization would go through rigorous steps to ensure reliability, validity, and fairness is provided to all test takers. One step in the process that may be included is proper training to all testing administers to ensure how to properly use the test. In addition, most organizations find it is important to select test distributors who can advise on “piloting, norming, and validating their tests” (Fine, 2006, p.285). Lastly, organizations should insist on copies of any test to ensure there are no issues that can potentially arise and cause...
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...thought of myself a little differently than the results indicated but saw that it reflected what I had been working to improve and what needed to still be worked on. My achievement and self – actualizing styles are in the highest range. In addition humanistic-encouraging and affiliative styles were also in the high range. Indicating that my constructive styles were all in the high range. I believe my experience and life skills learned have led to my LSI survey indicating that I have worked very hard to improve myself overall. My high range achievement scores indicate that I will feel positively challenged by what I am confronted with in life. I will strongly believe that I can change things and make them the way they should be, and I am a risk taker. Recognizing that I will have problems and setbacks, I have contingency plans to overcome obstacles and unknowns. Additionally, I typically derive great satisfaction from being guided by my own goals, and I do tend to encourage others to adopt my goals, from a genuine desire to see them improve. I try to encourage achievement-oriented thinking by helping others discover the power of personal goal setting as I have. I have a strong desire to do things well and I work best with minimal to no supervision. My survey also indicates my Self-Actualizing style is in the highest range also which shows that I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my ability to make things better. I have a healthy outlook on life which allows me to...
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...part and enlisting the help of fifty equites to ensure that his order was obeyed. Through these measures, Suetonius argued that Galba lost the support of the senate and the soldiers within his seven month reign. The principal place of division of interests lay with money, in which Galba was attempting to introduce new taxes and reforms to refill the treasury, an idea which Suetonius ignored in his writing. As a side effect of this, however, Galba was unable to pay his soldiers the money that he had promised them in the initial revolt against Nero. Suetonius described a two-fold precedent which Galba was likely unwittingly playing into. Galba had garnered support for his ascension through military distinction, discipline, and answering the call of the Gallic provinces to “rescue humanity from Nero.” However, his legitimacy as emperor was almost immediately thrown under attack. These (the troops in Upper Germany), the first Roman troops bold enough to withhold their allegiance, refused on the Kalends of January to take any oath except in the name of the Senate; they informed the praetorians by messenger that they were fed up with this made-in-Spain emperor, and would the praetorians please choose one who deserved the approval of the army as a whole? Galba had his support base primarily in the soldiers, and when that base switched allegiance, it was only a matter of time that Galba was replaced. It was through this purely military ascension that Galba provided an alternative...
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...who cried at every obstacle that had been thrown at me. I remember climbing up the monkey bars with her and being too afraid to come down. She was afraid too, even though she stubbornly denied it. Being the risk taker she was, she had pushed away her fears and jumped, she scraped her knee pretty bad but it was all worth it to her. But me? I stayed up on the monkey unwilling to come down until my parent came and carried me down. And that was one example of us being different. “People may react to adverse circumstances in different ways.” For example – Liesel form The Book Thief by Mark Zusak may react to adversity differently than Elie Wiesel would and so can Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. Everyone is different with their own schema and that’s what makes them unique. Throughout the book Christopher’s most challenging adversity was dealing with emotions. Christopher solves problem with logic and perseverance, emotions are not needed. After discovering...
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...In the book “1776” by David McCullough, it tells the tale of war times in the year 1776. This book is a work of historical nonfiction and a true account of an American History, based on true events of war, hard times with many people, and the lives of soldiers. Their accounts take us throughout the South to the North. George Washington was a man that many of us know and will know for years to come and this book will give the readers a look into his life as he battles in war time during 1776. At the same time we must not forget who was with him and the other men on the opposing sides of these battles. David McCullough will walk his readers through heroic battles, sadness, illness, and lives that many of us never realized happen. The author...
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...entrepreneurial character. He argued, “It is in most cases only one man or a few men who see the new possibility and are able to cope with the resistance and difficulties which action always meets with outside of the ruts of established practice” (Joseph A. Schumpeter, 1947). Table 1: Definitions of Entrepreneur (Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2000) 1. Strengths 1.1 Risk Taker Scientists have given a lot of emphasis on the characteristic of risk bearing with respect to the entrepreneurs. Noah Webster in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1961) refers to the entrepreneur as “the organizer of an economic venture, especially one who organizes, owns, manages and assumes the risk of a business”. On the other hand, Schumpeter (1934) argued that risk bearing is a characteristic more common in the concept of ownership and since entrepreneurs are not necessarily owners of a venture it cannot be considered as an absolute entrepreneurial trait. To conclude, although Schumpeter’s differentiation of ownership and entrepreneurship is well defined, examining an entrepreneur’s activities we could assume that the risk-bearing propensity...
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...Should the Legal Drinking Age be lowered to 18? Ryan A. Conklin is a soldier who enlisted into the Army at the age of 17. He was deployed to Iraq when he was just 20 years old. In his book, he wrote about his daily duties of a soldier in Iraq and all of the sights and sounds that he witnessed. He makes a comment in his book about the drinking age in the United States. He states “I was twenty years old, and on April Fools’ Day, I would turn twenty-one finally legal to drink in a bar. Unfortunately, I was two-and-a-half years into serving my country and was living in a combat zone, and I found it odd that until then I was still not allowed to drink alcohol in the States. A law I hope will be changed in my lifetime.” Different cultures and societies respond different to alcohol in terms of how much they can drink and what their bodies can handle. The legal age to consume alcohol in the U.S. should be lowered to eighteen for the sake of the people, the economy, and safety. When a male or female turns the age of 18, they now reserve the right to serve in the military. When war broke out with Iraq, people were chosen to go over that just turned the age of 18. In the book “An Angel in Hell” by Ryan A. Conklin, he stated “he would always wake up hoping that that day was not the last day he would be on this Earth. He was always on high alert while on patrols, dodging bullets and shooting his own gun just to stay alive.” He also said, in his book, “that he found it odd and annoying...
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...Hannibal the Great ECPI University Hannibal the Great Pundits often agree that there are five characteristics of great leaders. The first of these is being flexible. Not everything always goes according to plan. Competitors change tactics, governments force new regulations, strikes stop the flow of products, and, occasionally, natural disasters occur. During times like these, leaders have to be able to change course; that is, first make sure their interests will survive, and then find a new way to reach their goals. The second characteristic is being able to communicate. Many leaders are superb orators, but speaking well isn’t all that is required of a good leader. There are lots of people who talk a good game but fall short of delivering. Leaders who communicate well not only share their thoughts with their subordinates, but also let their strength and personal character show through in their communication, and empower those who work for them by defining the company’s goal and showing how to get there. Courage, tenacity, and patience together form the third characteristic. Possessing the courage to stand alone, the tenacity to not submit to pressure, and the patience to persevere until you’ve won -- and sometimes at the same time--is something you should strive to develop if you want to be a truly successful leader. The fourth necessitous characteristic is the amalgam of humility and presence. Feigning aloof, or superior your employees, does not make one a leader. Leaders...
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...When we were assigned this assignment, I wanted to pick four leaders who I wanted to learn from. I wanted to study how they became successful leaders. I wanted to enhance my abilities from what I learned from the following four leaders. The four leaders I choose: Pope Francis, Jeff Bezos, Alexander the Great and Abraham Lincoln. I choose these four because of the style of leadership I feel they are the best in: leading by an example, being a risk taker, using strategy, and never giving up (determination). Pope Francis is very effective by setting an example. He is humble. He wants to be a Pope who for the people. He is not someone who wants fluent his position which makes him a popular Pope. He would rather drive in a FIAT 500 then a limo. (What did the leader do well ) "Francis hates any members of the clergy who sit in offices and push paper," Krames says. As a bishop in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (as he was then), would dress as a plain priest and go out at night to talk with people. "When he became pope he told one of his archbishops, 'I can't do that anymore, so you're going to do it for me.' He doesn't want a pristine church, he wants a church that's going out in the streets to find people and help them." Likewise, Francis famously chose not to move into the papal apartments but to remain in a guest suite at the Vatican, "to live in community with others," according to a Vatican representative. “[1] “The reformist Pope immediately set his sights on the...
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...A test or examination is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs). A test may be administered orally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills. Tests vary in style, rigor and requirements. For example, in a closed book test, a test taker is often required to rely upon memory to respond to specific items whereas in an open book test, a test taker may use one or more supplementary tools such as a reference book or calculator when responding to an item. A test may be administered formally or informally. An example of an informal test would be a reading test administered by a parent to a child. An example of a formal test would be a final examination administered by a teacher in a classroom or an I.Q. test administered by a psychologist in a clinic. Formal testing often results in a grade or a test score.[1] A test score may be interpreted with regards to a norm or criterion, or occasionally both. The norm may be established independently, or by statisticalanalysis of a large number of participants. A standardized test is any test that is administered and scored in a consistent manner to ensure legal defensibility.[2]Standardized tests are often used in education, professional certification, psychology (e.g., MMPI), the military, and many other fields. A non-standardized test is usually flexible in scope...
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...Tobacco in America Edward Seavey Drugs and Society Professor Fuchs DeVry University TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction p. 3 II. History of Tobacco p. 4 III. Social Acceptability p. 6 IV. Medical Issues Related to Tobacco Use p. 8 V. Public Health Campaign p. 9 VI. Legal Measures to Ban Cigarettes p. 10 VII. Conclusion p. 12 Introduction Tobacco and nicotine are legal substances in the United States but are surrounded in a flurry of conflict and controversy. Tobacco can be used in the form of snuff, chewing tobacco, traditional cigarettes and more recently the electronic cigarette. After heavy advertisement and use over the past decades there have been many studies that have shown the negative health effects that tobacco can have on the individual and those around them. Tobacco use is the leading cause of lung and mouth cancers in the United States and also plays a role in many other organs such as the heart and lungs. Armed with this information the government and many other agencies have taken to public health campaigns to raise awareness of these negative effects. In recent years there have been many laws put into place to control tobacco ranging from increased taxes and prohibiting where it can be used. This paper is going to lay out how tobacco production helped shape the United States, how it was an acceptable act to partake in and how in modern times it is becoming a health and legal issue and whether or not it is okay for the government...
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...Running Head: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP Assignment 1 Entrepreneurial Leadership Joan M. Badger Dr. Anne Nelson Bus 508 Contemporary Business October 11, 2011 The American Telephone & Telegraph Wireless Liability Corporation of California The founding leader for AT&T Wireless Limited Liability Corporation of California is Craig McCaw. American Telephone and Telegraph Wireless Liability Corporation of California is a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph Incorporated. Mr. McCaw had been in charge of his father’s cable television company McCaw Communications Incorporated, a sole proprietorship established in 1966, operating domestically. In 1981, he became interested in the cellular telephone market and began bidding on cellular telephone license, according to Academy of Achievements, n.d. Mr. McCaw sold shares of his cable television company to larger enterprises, creating a partnership and equity financing enabling him to amass a credit line of one billion dollars. Thus, he began establishing the foundation of intrapreneurship by purchasing all available licenses in cellular phones creating the basis for a national network ahead of the nearest competitor, namely the Bell Company. In factor, McCaw Cellular Communications purchased MCI and became the industry leader in 1986, according to Academy Achievement, n.d. In 1989 McCaw Cellular Communications acquired LIN Broadcasting, cellular telephone sales exploded and Craig McCaw became...
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...but not referenced or cited as official Army policy or doctrine. Feedback and Participation: Comments on this White Paper should be sent to the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic (CAPE), Combined Arms Center, TRADOC. To get engaged in this review of the Profession of Arms, visit the CAPE website at https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/611545 and click on the Campaign link. The website will also provide links to professional forums and blogs on the Battle Command Knowledge System to partricipate in this discussion. Authorized for distribution 8 December 2010: Martin E. Dempsey General, U.S. Army Commanding General Table of Contents Introduction: Why we Need a Campaign to Understand the Profession of Arms and the Professional Soldier Section 1 – The Army as a Profession of Arms What does it mean to be a...
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...Ukrainian counterparts. Perhaps in the confused aftermath of events in Kiev, the Ukrainians were still wondering whose orders they were supposed to follow. But today there are large groups of Ukrainian soldiers who resist the new authority in Crimea, who refuse to surrender their bases and their ships, and who are slowly starting to create problems for the Russians. Perhaps a decision has been taken to fight back? So far it has been done peacefully, but each time the troops are pushing the boundaries, hoping to show the world that Ukrainians are being bullied by their Russian masters. The international community may have given up on Crimea. It is clear the new government in Kiev has not. Which brings us to the events of today. 'Insults and obscenities' Russian troops fired into air as Ukrainians marched on a Crimean air base The Russian guard at the airfield in Sevastopol must have considered the prospect of a confrontation like this. Marching towards them was a column of 300 unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, with their flag proudly displayed. The Russians fired over their heads but on went the Ukrainians, marching in line, singing their anthem, in defiance. One volley after the other went over their head and, as they neared the barriers, the rifles of the Russian soldiers were lowered. This airfield at Sevastopol is home to the MiG fighters of the Ukrainian air force. For several days the troops loyal to Kiev had been confined to their barracks - but now the Russian and...
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...out • Find ways to channel wants into effective cooperation B. Relations with People • Two basic lessons – Men are complex and men are different • Enable superiors to know subordinates as human beings • Must be in a position to satisfy them • Understand implications of his own actions • Consistent and clear decisions C. Pitfalls of Perception • Worst difficulties come from misperceiving reality • Successful leader is prepared for such misperceptions • Psychological difficulty of being a subordinate • Understanding leader doesn’t consider them inferior, but maintains a psychological distance • Eliminate phony democracy D. Goals in Development • Balance risks and returns • Executive must watch long term growth of his men • Long run growth vital part of continuing leadership • Development limited only by contributions E. Dealing with Tact • No genuine growth without some teaching • Superior must take cognizance of subordinate’s successes and failures • Adequate communication very important • Leader must know how to use followers traits and skills F. Secrets of Symphony Orchestra Conductor • Men must have requisite skills and training • Psychological setting for...
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