...Fiction and the Work Environment Paper When reading a short story, poem, or even novel the author often attempts to provide the audience with some type of personal connection to a variety of components to the reading. An author may select very personable, hardworking, and unselfish characters to allow the audience to connect in some way with the main or subordinate characters; or the author may elect to provide a common type of setting to provide the readers an additional way to connect to the literature. Mona Simpson’s short story entitled “Coins” (Scheckner & Boyes 2008) is a story which provides many opportunities for the reader to make some type of personal connection by providing a story of an untraditional family setting. Simpson’s story provided a few important lessons that people need to keep in mind as they go about their daily lives. The short story sheds light to what should be important in a person’s life; what should be a priority, the lessons taught to children through hard work and love. After reading Simpson’s “Coins” I was face to face with the lessons that the story presented, forcing me to take a look at my priorities and family, thus allowing me a moment to reflect on what I truly cherish in my life, which is the love for my family and the importance of teaching my children the qualities of hard work in order to appreciate all that we have. The story of Lola, the housekeeper/nanny, was one that I was easy to make personal connections to and provided...
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...Best Practices to Create Welcoming and Supportive Work Environments What makes a great supportive work environment? Nursing is the heart of health care organizations. The main factors for nurses leaving their place of employment includes poor working conditions, low pay, unsafe work environments, resources to work effectively, limited career and educational opportunities (Wiskow, Albreht & Pietro, 2010). Therefore, it is essential to hire the right people that will create a friendly atmosphere and supportive work environment. In a recent study of the best places to work Schwartz (2011) reported that employers who empower their employees are more considerable committed, productive, and produce better outcomes than employees who are less empowered....
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...Hostile Work Environment It’s about the Discrimination Not “The Sex” Dale Vineyard March 15, 2013 Organizational Behavior Article Review Keith Buelow Hostile work environment, from a historical prospective, has derived from a sexual harassment paradigm and theory of discrimination has tended to be viewed as linked to sexual conduct. The passage of Title VII of the Civil rights act has brought a struggle for courts to establish the framework to conceptualize and recognize the claims of sex discrimination. Hostile work environment has been rooted from the assumption that sexual harassment derives from desire or dominance. Title VII interprets hostile work environment as the presence of overt sexual conduct to demonstrate that an individual’s working conditions have been discriminatorily altered so as to create a hostile environment. These events have brought a broad contextual paradigm, which reflects a greater willingness by the courts to view the evidence offered in support of hostile work environments, without disaggregating evidence into artificially-constructed categories of sexual and non-sexual conduct. A broader contextual approach has brought an arising exclusive approach to hostile work environment, and as result of exposing an individual to severe or pervasive conduct of a sexual nature. This gives the courts an opportunity to acknowledge the ways in which discrimination because...
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...desire or need, rewards from achieved goals, and expectations on oneself or others (Business Dictionary.com). Different things motivate me in the workplace. Three of the biggest motivations that drive me include the need to help support my family financially, the challenges it gives me to better myself, and the rewards and benefits that result from doing a great job. Some days, only one of the factors motivates me, while on other days, it is a mixture of the factors. With the current economy and cost of living here in Hawaii, I feel the need more than ever to contribute to my family’s income. By being able to hold job that offers good benefits and security, I am able to appreciate my job, which in turn motivates me to work hard and produce quality work. Bainbridge’s definition of extrinsic motivation shows that this can be considered as an extrinsic type of motivation since the motivation comes from the outside and the rewards include good benefits and a paycheck (Bainbridge, Extrinsic Motivation). It can also be considered an intrinsic motivation because certain aspects of the job I do are very enjoyable. For example, when I am closing out a project, I get pleasure out of solving the problems that caused accounting errors within that project. My job also provides me with many different challenges. These challenges motivate me to either do better or to learn something new. These motivations come from inside and are considered internal motivators, or intrinsic motivation...
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...Shana V. Mitchell Bus-309 Business Ethics Professor Garry Williams Mid-Term Report 3 November 2011 1. Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced. -I have worked in many different types of environments and have experienced many different attitudes of my fellow co-workers. There are some who are messy, just talk about others for no reason; there were others who were mean with nasty attitudes very unpleasant and rude to customers. Being lazy was a very big issue because no one wanted to work together and help out, they only were to do just what they had to do and nothing more, but they would want to steal time by staying longer hours but doing nothing, and they would also steal supplies from the daycare to use at their homes. Sheehy’s co-workers were trying to get rid of their customers as fast as possible. 2. Explain the implications of the work ethic Sheehy describes for the future of American Business. -Because of the lack of respect and work ethics, employees will become unappreciative and unreliable, because they don’t care. Exploitation will occur when the employer start to give the employee long hours, and less pay which will cause the employees to rebel and not care about the importance of doing their job responsibly. 3. Explain whether it is more reasonable to expect workers, especially in a capitalist society, to be more devoted to their jobs, more concerned...
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...Introduction: Stock brokerage firms have been an established feature in the financial industry for nearly one thousand years. Dealing in debt securities, brokers employs a variety of systems to aid investors with the purchase and sales of stocks and bonds in a variety of markets. The firms have changed over the years, growing to massive organizations that can affect the entire financial sector positively or negatively with their performance. Changing with the times, the early twenty-first century saw a rise of online trading that enabled the average investor to take part in the stock market for the first time. History of stock brokering industry: The Indian broking industry is one of the oldest trading industries that have been around even before the establishment of the BSE in 1875. Despite passing through a number of changes in the post liberalization period, the industry has found its way towards sustainable growth. The stock broking duties are now mostly taken up by major organizations and companies with greater skills and expertise along with customized services. Though the services of stock broking firms are customized they can by the nature of their existence be differentiated as brokers and corporations who mainly provide services such as: equity broking, debt markets broking, money markets broking, foreign exchange broking, portfolio management broking, research & advisory services, registrar & transfer services, depository participant services, mutual fund...
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...1 |The work is really challenging. | | | | |2 |People go out of their way to help a new employee feel comfortable. | | | |3 |Supervisors tend to talk down to employees. | | | |4 |Few employees have many important responsibilities. | | | |5 |People pay a lot of attention to getting work done. | | | |6 |There is constant pressure to keep working. | | | |7 |Things are sometimes pretty disorganized. | | | |8 |There’s a strict emphasis on following policies and regulations. | | | |9 |Doing things in a different way is valued. | | | |10 |It sometimes gets too hot. | | | |11 |There is not much group spirit. ...
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...One of the most frustration situation I have been in with someone that was not professional is when I worked in the hospital in the rehab department we were already understaff there were 20 patient to a nurse aide, and 4 nurses on the floor, most of the time we couldn’t get a nurse to help us so there for we were on our own .When working in the nurse field or any other field you suppose to work together. My shift was 7a-7p then we would switch with the other shift. My shift 7a-7p we did everything as far as feeding breakfast, lunch and dinner pass ice turn patients change patient did everything we could do with each aide having 20 patients a piece to take care of .One particular night the night shift came in when they come in they felt everything should be done .One of the ladies got upset because there were a few things that were not done and she started talking loud and being very rude .I asked her to calm down and talk to me like an adult, that time of the night all supervisors are gone .I told her that we have to work as a team if something is not finished they were to take up the slack which at night time there was not much to do cause patients were sleeping she didn’t want to hear anything I was saying ,I picked up my things and politely left the floor because there is a certain way you act in you place of employment .The next morning I went to talk to my supervisor she told me someone had already came and talked to her about the situation ,she told me that I handled things...
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...What is a hostile work environment and how to prevent it? What is a hostile work environment and how to prevent it? Many people have a misconception about what a hostile work environment really is. They feel that if they have a boss or co-worker who yells, teases or causes a high stress work day that it is a hostile workplace. That is a true statement in a literal sense but it is not illegal, this becomes illegal is when there are comments about race, gender, disability or age. When the workplace becomes intimidating to one of these classes is when there is more likely to be problems or even a lawsuit. There are different state and federal laws that will apply for each case of hostile work environment. The hostile workplace laws fall under the following federal laws: * The Civil Rights act of 1964 Title VII * Equal Pay Act of 1963, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 * Rehabilitation Act of 1973 * Civil Rights Act of 1991. * The Michigan law is The Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights act of 1976 (ELCRA) A hostile work environment can be anything from sexually oriented jokes, posters, age comments, race comments, discrimination because of a disability. That being said in Michigan there are five requirements that have to be met for a hostile work environment claim to be filed: * The employee belonged to a protected group; * The employee was subjected to communication or conduct on the basis of sex; * The employee was subjected to...
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...What collaboration tools have you used in your work environment or personal life? How have these information systems benefited you? At work I rely on email through Microsoft Outlook. I prefer email above all other communication at work because I am able to go back and review and reference an email at any given time. I know that there are instances where miscommunication can occur because the receiver is not able to "hear" the tone of the message nor can they "see" any body language that goes along with the message. That being said, when at work, I keep my emails extremely professional, straight to the point. I also will re-read my emails prior to sending that way I can ensure that my message will be received in the manner that I intended it to be understood. After the phone conversation, I will then send the recipient an email just to briefly go over what had been discussed and agreed upon during the phone conversation. A few times a month our company will also use Skype to talk to our factory management team overseas. This helps on several different levels. This helps when we feel that email will not be able to convey the message as appropriately as a verbal contact would. Having employees overseas that speak and write English as their second language, it is very easy to have miscommunication. Speaking over Skype not only cuts the miscommunication down, but it also is a free service and neither party will have to pay in order to use....
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...Information Systems and information security are two of the most important issues in the work environment. To be able to understand the importance of a feature, first you must understand what it is. As you read along, you will have a better understanding of the importance of information systems and security in a work environment. Information Systems Information systems can be defined as a collection of data, people, processes, communications, and technology that work together to support and help improve the everyday functions of running a business. Information systems have advanced in its development over the past years. Whereas in the early 80s the information systems way of collecting data and communication was so unprivileged. Most companies use far advance systems that hold, send and distribute information. Advanced systems have changed most company’s position in their respective market place. Information systems have changed the way companies are able to conduct their business in a variety of ways over time. Companies are able to reach out to their management team as well as clients. Part of management is being able to gather and distribute information to other employees and or clients in an efficient and timely manner. Email is the most common way of communication but employees are also able to store information in folders that can be retrieved at each individual convenience. Information systems have provided a way that companies can transact business...
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...Wireless Technologies and Networks in a Work Environment Edoardo Castillo BIS 221 February 5, 2015 Bill Fennell Wireless technologies and the use of networks have become a great part of our professional lives. We use networks to communicate and share ideas in a professional environment without having to be face-to-face with one another. Some of the advantages wireless technology has given us are mobility, flexibility, increased productivity, and reduced cost of manpower and material. These are just some of the advantages that wireless technology offers us, but we need to keep in mind that there are risks to this technology (Nascio.org, 2004). Although wireless technology has some significant benefits, it also has some disadvantages. Protecting confidential information within a company continues to be a concern for businesses all around the world. Another concern is the strength of a network and its ability to work at its full potential in broad range areas. Implementing a wireless technology like Wi-Fi will increase the productivity of any company or corporation. Wi-Fi will decrease the cost of materials and wires needed to link all of the workstations to a central network. Placing secure Wi-Fi points in and around offices for employees can significantly improve productivity within a period of work time. Yes, a Wireless Local Access Network gives you several advantages such as convenience, mobility, deployment, and expandability in a network. However just like wireless...
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...Oriented Work Environment Introduction It’s a common belief that flexibility in the workplace is necessary this day in age. Implementing flexibility in the work environment is a difficult thing to do. This author says it very clear, “Making flexibility the “New Normal” in the American workplace is no simple task” (Seitel, 2009). However, everything is easier when an employee has support behind them and has the same belief as they do. Many statistics show that lack of flexibility is a proven issue that takes place within the entire organization. It will take everyone from senior leadership down to the department supervisors to acknowledge the issue and to be on board with the commitment to fix it. That is why utilizing ROWE in a corporation that values their employees is a positive step forward with enhancing employee morale. Management successfully supervising this program will outshine those that either are against the concept or have not learned fully what it is about or what it can do for an organization. What is ROWE? ROWE stands for Results Oriented Work Environment. “ROWE is a corporate-level organizational change aimed at altering the temporal structure of work, seeking to dismantle the clocks and calendars dictating when and where work is done, and the engrained cultural beliefs and practices around work time and face time as indicators of work commitment, productivity, and quality” (Moen, Kelly and Hill 2011). ROWE is not about where the employee works or how many...
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...Best Practices in a Diverse Work Environment Melody Nelson HRM 531 October 18, 2010 Caroline Willett | InterClean, Inc. | Memo To: First level managers From: Melody Nelson CC: Date: October 18, 2010 Re: InterClean, Inc and EnviroTech Merger Transition Merger Transition The merger between InterClean an EnviroTech is in its final stages. As in any situation involving change, there will be some uncertainties and insecurities among the staff and it is the responsibility of all management personnel at all levels to effectively deal with these issues. However, setting a good foundation and following through with good communication, uncertainties and insecurities will be kept at a minimum. Following are a few ways you can make a significant contribution toward that goal. Enthusiasm is contagious! This is a golden opportunity not only for the future of InterClean but also for anybody at InterClean. As we begin merging the operations of both companies, there very well could be some downsizing in certain areas. However, there will also be new opportunities to learn, grow, and move into positions of greater responsibility. Commitment is contagious! “The importance of talking the talk and walking the walk is fundamental to achieving commitment” (Schifalacqua, Costello, & Denman, 2009). Frequent communications updating the status of the merging of operations should be relayed to all team members in a timely fashion in order to keep the excitement flowing...
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...Wireless Technologies and Networks in the Work Environment Tablets, smartphones and laptops have given workers more flexibility in how they work and learn. Contributing to that flexibility is the ability to access the Web with these devices via wireless networks. No longer do people need to be in the same room – or even in the same country to collaborate and tackle a project. Answers to questions can be given instantly via a mobile call, conference, email or text message. The need for travel is reduced, and collaborators are accessible for longer periods throughout the day. In fact, the IAAP poll also showed that 86 percent of surveyed execs think that workers will be more accessible for collaboration in the future even while on vacation (International Association of Administrative Professionals: Office of The Future 2020 Computer: Smartphones Enabling Mobile Collaboration). Wireless communication has also made it much easier for Information Technology departments to install and maintain hardware in large organizations. Previously, connecting PCs, printers and other devices to the company network required running lengths of cable throughout the facility, often requiring access to sub-floor or ceiling spaces -- and a single bad wire could trigger hours of work trying to find the defect. Wireless networking is much easier to configure, simply requiring configured repeaters placed to extend the signal throughout the office. Wireless networks are also easy to access, as long...
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