...Are Trophies For Everyone? Imagine winning an award thinking that all of your hard work finally paid off only to see that the person who doesn’t practice or pay attention received the exact same award. Giving out participation trophies may seem like a good idea at first, but they shouldn’t be given. To begin with, nothing in life will be handed to anyone. If someone wants to be a physician but doesn’t make an immense effort to be hired or study, they likely won’t get the job. If children are given an award for just showing up, when they grow up they could end up thinking that they should get the job just because they showed up to the interview. By just giving out awards for participation, it gives young children the impression that they are entitled to something, whether they earned it and worked hard for it or not. This leads to the next point....
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...Awards for Everyone Society has made significant changes in the manner in which it treats children involved in competitions. Trophies should convey an individual’s hard work, discipline, success and accomplishments. So why are there so much discussion around it, specifically for children? This phenomenon of giving a trophy for simply showing up is termed “Participation Trophy”. There are proponents who believe that this will bolster children’s confidence and motivate them to persevere. Conversely, opponents consider this practice damaging as it aids in encouraging a sense of entitlement and complacency in children. Vivian Diller’s “Do We All Deserve Gold? Setting Kids Up to Fail” highlights that this perception of all receiving a trophy is...
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...Participation trophies have had both a positive and negative effect on children. People believe that participation trophies make children grow up in an entitled generation, expecting awards for every little amount of work they put into anything they do. While others believe it teaches kids lessons, for example, lessons that will help them in the future including the value of commitment, hard work, and skills needed to achieve their goals regardless the outcome. Observations show that parents tend to lean more into one side of the argument, depending on how it affected them or their child. The article by Lisa Heffernan, a TODAY Contributor, was in favor of participation trophies based on how it influenced her hardworking son. The article was effective in providing a strong argument to parents using the emotional support that came from authors and her child's experience....
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...Should Anyone Get trophies for just showing up As a kid no one wants to be left out that sucks, anyone who went to school gym class knows the anxiety of being picked last for a team. The same feelings happen when they are excluded from lunch, parties, and games. Also If someone plays an entire game, they have to be awarded with a trophy. Yet, if everyone gets one, it is not special or meaningful so it is okay if some teenagers get a participation trophy. Plus children should get trophies because, Trophies will help motivate kids to do their best in what they believe in. Participation ribbons should be handed out because everyone has to be included, trophies would get people motivated, people use trophies as way to acknowledge each players effort or contribution....
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...Should Everyone Get a Trophy In the article “Should Everyone Get a Trophy” it states, “In life, most people are not rewarded for simply doing what’s required. A student doesn't get an A for just going to class. A employee doesn't get a raise for just arriving to work on time. Shouldn’t only the hardest-working or highest performing athletes get accolades?” For the past couple of years there has been a system in sports programs called, “Trophies for all” where everyone gets a trophy even for participating. But should a kid have a trophy to motivate them and not mistakes? Not every age group should be given a trophy for participating because kids need to learn to make mistakes and fail, and it improves kids motivation and makes kids work harder for it....
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...Let me take you back to 2008. I’m four, ending my first season of soccer, with a smile stretching from ear to ear plastered on my face. Why? I had gotten a trophy! Little did I know, or care, that we had lost every game that season. Fast-forward to 2014. I’m ten, ending my fourth season of basketball, throwing a temper tantrum. Why? I didn’t get a trophy. Participation trophies have become a tradition in recreational sports that spoils and ruins the competition of sports. Recreational sports organizations shouldn’t give out participation trophies because it loses value if everybody gets one, it increases narcissism and selfishness, and it doesn’t teach good work ethic. Trophies are special because they’re for winners. They lose value if everybody gets one. To start, Brenda Iasevoli, from Time for Kids, has a quote in the article “Should Everyone Get a Trophy?” saying, “‘The trophy has to stand for something,’ Dweck told TFK. ‘If we give a trophy to everyone, then the award has no value.’” Trophies are...
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...Trophies are come in many forms. It may be given in the form of a shiny cup that is awarded as a prize for a victory or an extremely nice promotional at one’s work, but also could be rewarded to one in a miniscule way as well. A professor saying “good job on the paper” or a mom cooking one’s favorite food for helping her out that day, trophies are ultimately rewards in order to honor individuals for their successes and achievements. Although, trophies have both beneficial and also potentially harmful consequences to not only receiving them, but giving them as well. Personally, I believe that trophies are essential for success. Although, I do not think trophies in the sense of being rewarded a physical object is what leads to success, instead, it is through showing delayed gratification toward individuals who actually deserve to be acknowledged for...
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...Argumentative Essay “Have we gone trophy-crazy as a society, bestowing trophies on children for almost anything, even just showing up? Are we afraid children will be hurt by losing, so we make everyone a winner? Or are awards an effective way to raise children’s self-esteem and keep them motivated to do better?”(Gonchar). Something that has always crossed my mind is how many participation trophy’s I got as a child, ribbons and prizes for sitting around and not doing much. Why do we give out so many trophies? Will our children end up spoiled and entitled? Unable to be independent and outgoing? I believe that we give out too many trophies to children that do nothing and it encourages them to be entitled, lazy, and unable to be independent....
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...kept as a trophy after they went through the shrinking. The ritual for the head shrinking would take place once a year, where they would barge into people’s homes, killing the oldest male. Not only would they kill the oldest male, they would send a spear through the eldest woman, and then they would take the youngest women, forcing them to be their brides. “In silence the killers bent over him and began to sever the head from the body. A long knife, acquired by barter, speeded up the work. In a few moments the trophy, still warm and bleeding, hung over the murderers' shoulders as they ran swiftly homewards. They hurried, although no one pursued them.” In the book Jivaro: Head-hunters of the Amazon, they described how they would sneak up to enemies and take their lives without even blinking. Another way they would obtain a head for shrinking is in battle with apposing side. The first thing you normally see when looking at these shrunken heads is something long hanging from their mouth. This was either a band of hair or some sort of vine, making it easier for them to carry the head back home, using it as their trophy. “Though trophies of colonial expansion acquired by Euro-Ecuadorians in the Upper Amazon, shrunken heads are presented as trophies of the Shuar Warfare—so museums can present themselves not as collectors of shrunken head humans, but as collectors of tokens of “Shuar Culture.” In this article Steven L. Rubenstein states that most of these so called trophies end up in...
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...Imagine if kids got trophies for eating? According to the "throphies for All" policy, youth athletes are being awarded with particiption trophies, By rewards for everyday receiving rewards for everyday activities, youth athletes will not kknow what to do in the real world. The more trophies given out to youth athletes the less each one means. Buying participation trophies a poor use of scarce funds. However, some parents of youth athletes might think theres nothing wong with giving a throphy to say, "good job." In order to be rewarded, the youth athlete should make a positive impact. By being rewarded for completeing everyday activities, youth athletes will not learn what to expect in the real world. According to "Should Eveyone get a...
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...would go through this much work to make sure they did not have a vengeful spirit after them, they later used the heads in many religious ceremonies. Some say that most heads were destroyed, and very little of them were kept as a trophy after they went through the shrinking. The ritual for the head shrinking would take place once a year, where they would barge into people’s homes, killing the oldest male. Not only would they kill the oldest male, they would send a spear through the eldest woman, and then they would take the youngest women, forcing them to be their brides. Another way they would obtain a head for shrinking is in battle with apposing side. The first thing you normally see when looking at these shrunken heads is something long hanging from their mouth. This was either a band of hair or some sort of vine, making it easier for them to carry the head back home, using it as their trophy. “Though trophies of colonial expansion acquired by Euro-Ecuadorians in the Upper Amazon, shrunken heads are presented as trophies of the Shuar Warfare—so museums can present themselves not as collectors of shrunken head humans, but as collectors of tokens of “Shuar Culture.” In this article Steven L. Rubenstein states that most of these so called trophies end up in museums, and some people even give their heads to the museums because they feel uneasy keeping them around. The process of the Tsantsa seems like a very long and precise one. After obtaining their victim’s body, they...
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...By Göran Goldkuhl ACTION and MEDIA in INTERORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTION T Coordinating the role of IT with business processes. he language-action perspective (LAP) has contributed to several models of coordination of work. In the seminal work of Winograd and Flores [12] the conversation-foraction (cfa) scheme was introduced. This scheme describes, as a kind of generic construct, how two actors come to an agreement about what is to be done. There is someone who asks for the work and someone to perform the work. There are several approaches to business modeling following the cfa scheme. The two most famous approaches seem to be Action Workflow [9] and DEMO [1]; see the article by Dietz in this section for more on the DEMO methodology. The general idea is to get a business model of how people, through conversation, coordinate their work. Such a business model, focusing on coordination, should be seen as foundational for the development of supporting software. The LAP spirit is to consider software as a tool for coordination. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM May 2006/Vol. 49, No. 5 53 Action Workflow and DEMO are general business imply. BAT is a generic model for describing busimodeling methods based on LAP. They can be used ness interaction between a customer and supplier for modeling coordination within one organization (see Figure 2). It describes business interaction in (intraorganizational coordination) and can also be terms of four phases of...
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...MODULE 2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PROGRAMME MANAGING ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATIVE IMPROVEMENT CASE STUDY: “TROPHY PROJECT” GROUP ASSIGNMENT 05 JUNE 2012 We the undersigned hereby declare that this assignment is our own work. It has not been previously submitted for any other examination. Nocawa Johnson________________________________ Nolusindiso Mitani_________________________________ Welhemina Mnguni_________________________________ Content 1. Executive Summary………………………………………………………….....2 2. Body (Problems and Causes)……………………………………………….....3 2.1 Poor Planning…........................................................................................3 2.2 Programme behind schedule….................................................................4 2.3 Fruitless expenditure……………………………………………………...….4 2.4 Lack of Leadership………………………………………………………..….5 2.5 Lack of Communication……………………………………………….….….6 2.6 Lack of teamwork (no cohesion)……………………………………….……6 2.7 No goals and no objectives…………………………………………………..7 2.8 Conflict and Resistance………………………………………………………8 2.9 No Programme Management Office…………………………..………….….8 2.10 No required skills..........................................................................9 2.11 Lack of Technology……………………………………………….…9 2.12 Lack of Authority……………………………………………………10 3. About leadership in the top and functional management levels of the Organisation…………………………………………………………………...
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...Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Major problems Experienced in the Trophy Project 4 2.1. Synopsis of the Trophy project case study problems 4 3. List of Problems 4 3.1. Operational 4 3.2. Behavioural 5 3.3. Structural 5 4. Leadership at Top Management and functional management levels of the Organisation 7 4.1. Initiation Structures 8 4.2. Dysfunctional roles of Functional Manager 8 4.3. Lack of Senior Management Support 8 4.4. Reactionary Management style 10 4.5. Implementation strategy 10 4.6. Lack of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 11 4.7. Internal Processes perspectives 11 4.8. Lack of Innovation and Learning (Learning and Growth) Perspective 11 5. Reichart’s Leadership and Managerial Abilities 12 5.1. Planning 12 5.2. Organizing 12 5.3. Staffing 12 5.4. Leading 13 5.5. Controlling 13 5.6. Major Skills lacking in Reichart’s leadership 14 6. Recommendations 14 6.1. Implementing a Strategic Transformation and Change Management Programme 15 6.1.1. Strategic transformation planning 15 6.1.2. Creating a Climate for Change 17 6.1.3. Continuous Organisational Improvement 17 6.1.4. Risk Management 18 6.1.5. Control 18 6.1.6. Stage–Gate Model 18 6.1.7. Balanced Scorecard 19 7. Conclusion 19 8. References 20 9. Annexure 22 9.1. Planning, Control, organising, & leading 22 9.2. BS – PM Learning Organisation Value Chain Schematic 23 9.3. Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change 23 9.4. Strategic transformation process 24 9.5...
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...Case Overview The ill-fated Trophy Project was in trouble right from the start. Reichart, who had been an assistant project manager, was involved with the project from its conception. When the project was accepted, Reichart was assigned as the project manager. From day one, the schedules slipped and expenditures were excessive.Reichart found out that functional managers were charging direct labor time for “pet projects” to the Trophy Project resources. When he complained about it, he was told not to meddle in functional managers’ resource allocation and expenditures. After approximately six months, he was requested to present a progress report to the corporate and division staff. Reichart took this time to bare his soul. The report substantiated that the project was forecasted to be one year behind schedule and estimated cost at a 20% overrun. The project staff supplied by line managers was inadequate to stayed at the required pace let alone make up lost time. This was his first opportunity to present project problems to people in position to correct the situation. As the result of his frank and candid evaluation, nonbeliever and line managers realized that they had a role to play in the completion of the project. Most of the problems were out in the open and could be corrected by providing adequate staffing and resources. Corporate staff ordered remedial action and staff support to provide a chance to bail out his program. Reichart’s report yielded unexpected results...
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