...IS311 - Homework#1 Your Name – your ID – section# Q1. Understanding the Information System A library makes an excellent information systems model. It serves as a very large information storage facility with text, audio, and video data archives. Look up the definitions for each term listed below and briefly explain a library's equivalents. Students will more easily grasp advanced concepts once they learn to think in terms of the basic information systems structures. This exercise takes a familiar system and breaks it down into an information system's components. This exercise makes an excellent in-class discussion topic where students can expand each other's ideas. Consider substituting any common information system in place of a library. Alternative examples might include video rental stores, class registrations systems, and voting systems. a) Input A library's inputs consist of the items it receives for its collection. These items may consist of books, periodicals, maps, microfiche, DVDs, CDs, and many others. Inputs also consist of creating and maintaining patron's accounts. b) Processing A library's main processes revolve around checking out and checking in items from its collection. Additional processes include adding new items into the collection, purging dated, duplicate, or damaged items from the collection, photocopying or reproducing materials, facilitating inter-library loans, sending overdue notices, assisting...
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...The Human Touch Performance Appraisal II Tr a i n i n g L e a d e r ’s G u i d e Coastal Training Technologies Corp 500 Studio Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23452 ©2000 Coastal Training Technologies Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Coastal Training Technologies Corp. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter. It is sold with the understanding that Coastal Training Technologies Corp. is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Table of Contents The Human Touch Performance Appraisal II Preparation Materials Introduction....................................................................................................................8 Training Session Checklist...............................................................................................9 Trainer’s Instructions for Using the Book The Human Touch Performance Appraisal.........................................................10 Tips for Transferred Learning ........................................................................................11 Possible Session Agendas ........
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...Communications Report | Effective Business Communications | | Effective Business Communications Prepared for Prepared by November 13, 2012 Letter of Authorization Alvin C. Miles Director of Business Development Lecturer of Management EMBA Coles College of Business Kennesaw State University October 29, 2012 Team Green Fusion EMBA Coles College of Business Kennesaw State University Dear Team Green Fusion: The documents (3 in total) directly beneath this assignment should be used to complete your formal communications report. This assignment is broken in to two parts: your team's evaluation of your assigned team's individual presentations and the formal communications report. This is to be a team assignment. This assignment is to be completed by November 18th Business report and presentation slides are available for review in the Business Communication Learning Module. Please look at the notes associated with each slide for additional information: A Microsoft Word template has also been supplied as a starting point for the formal report. If there are questions, the team is expected to delineate guidelines through research, inquiry, and rational decision making. I anticipate that teams will search for formal report guidelines to get specificity on structure, or look up white papers to read sample abstracts. In a Master’s program, this is the expectation. Each report will vary according to the interpretation of the requirements...
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...Can Go Video Analysis Report Jessica Peace Dustin Peterson Julissa Rivera Mitchell Rodriguez Jesse Sanchez Busn 460 Senior Project DeVry University Professor Mozinski 09/11/2015 Revamped Vision Video Analysis Report 1. CanGo lacks a strategic business plan. A strategic business plan is a clear guide that a business puts together to achieve it business goals and objectives both short-term and long-term (Lorette, n.d.). 2. Corrective action I. 3. To achieve this they must first implement a distinctive mission, vision and value statement. The mission and vision statements are central to the strategic planning process because they provide a company’s reason for existence and what it wishes to achieve. The value statement serves as a moral compass for the company and its staff helping with decision making and forming a standard (SHRM, 2012). Once the mission, vision and value statements are determined we can focus on the next phase of strategic issues that need to be addressed in the planning process. 4. 5. CanGo lacks a defined company culture. While some take their work very seriously, others look at their work as just a job. It is time for CanGo to define their Company Culture. 6. Corrective action II. 7. Having a strong and healthy company culture can create a powerful and long lasting competitive advantage. This kind of advantage is difficult to detect by your competitors, and will become one of the most important motivators...
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...Running head: ENCOURAGING Certified Public Manager Program Hezedean A. Smith, MA, EMT-P 701 Gentry Court, Gotha, FL 34734 dean.smith@cityoforlando.net Florida State University Level 1 Assignment – Encouraging the Heart Submitted on: January 7, 2013 I. THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP – SELF ASSESSMENT RESULTS The results of the self-assessment are very accurate and surprising. I have a good understanding of what it means to encourage the heart and the benefits of doing so, however I may not commit fully to doing that consistently. The idea of getting closer to people I supervise is not necessarily a comfortable one for the most part. I usually force myself to open up while encouraging the heart. Some of the influences of this behavior may have been passed on during my prior military years and simply as a result of my personality style and culture. I prefer not to have too many people knowing how I feel emotionally on a personal level. Being very aware of the need for complimenting and rewarding my team is a priority regardless of my personal preference. My score was somewhere in the median and not necessarily at the lower limits. Improvement opportunities will be explored during my duty days. They will include setting aside time to engage in simple “chit chat” with my Lieutenants on the job. Additionally, I will ensure that various times throughout the day, I will stop and talk with others on the team. Within some limitations, sharing personal...
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...Management Skills Learning Contract Rime El Haddi 1) Skill to be developed To improve my coaching and mentoring skill 2) Assessment of current skills level During my bachelor degree, I was the general event coordinator for almost 4 years for an association that does charity called Hand in Hand Association. We had to organize a yearly fundraising event that was considered to be the biggest event at our university. I had to manage, guide, and mentor 11 committees of 11 coordinators; Therefore, I had to support the coordinator and help them achieve our targeted goal which was to raise an amount of fund by the end of the day of the event. Every year, when the D-day got closer, the coordinator including myself started stressing and panicking, hence as their support, I had to organize some teambuilding activities such as paintballing, hiking, and other activities to help them reduce their stress level and to motivate them stay focused on our targeted goal whatever the obstacles are. Therefore, I can proudly say that at the end of every fundraising event, we were able to raise the amount of money that we had as a goal and sometimes even exceed it. The reason why I chose to work on this interpersonal skill is to help me in my future career because I want to be an HR consultant, and as we all know, a good consultant must master the skill of coaching and mentoring. In a rating out of 10, I would give myself a 5 point in this skill because I believe that I still...
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...have a good knowledge of the subject in hand, but also some communication skills such as ability to observe, supervise, lead a discussion and pose questions. Furthermore, a teacher should be aware of how students perceive him or her. This perception is sometimes quite different from the teacher's self-image. It is difficult to self assess one’s own abilities and we benefit from colleagues’ feed back to recognize our strength and identify areas for possible improvement. Evaluation of teaching by students is becoming a common practice, and a constructive feedback could be an effective way to improve one's rating as a teacher. Even the experienced educators may sometimes reflect about strengths and weaknesses of their teaching style. What is microteaching? Microteaching is an excellent way to build up skills and confidence, to experience a range of lecturing/tutoring styles and to learn and practice giving constructive feedback. Microteaching...
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...senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction. Therefore, this study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on students’ accuracy? Results related to the questionnaire that was delivered to the participants proved that immediate error correction enhances and has a positive effect on their accuracy. Introduction Accuracy, in its simple view, is the ability to produce grammatical correct sentences (Gower et al. 1995). Since its vital role in acquiring the English language in Palestine, grammar should seize a wide distance in EFL classrooms and should be taught either inductively or deductively. Nevertheless, the process of teaching and learning does not guarantee that all learners are expected to produce grammatical sentences, so the role of the teachers, here, is to respond and give immediate feedback. The erroneous utterances may interfere with the intelligibility of what is said. When the feedback provided during a conversational interaction, the acquisition process is facilitated (Rahimi & Dastjerdi 2012) and the direct treatment of errors helps learners learn better. The feedback and correction of errors are parts of the process of learning and teaching....
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...the workforce and bringing people along with the changes rather than these feeling forced. The previous Director approached things completely different taking a more directive / consultative style. An example of this would be his blog. This was made available on our internal intranet and was updated regularly but this only informed us of what he wanted to say and his thoughts about what was going on in the organisation, it didn’t really provide an opportunity to comment or influence any of the decisions being made. The new Director has a completely different style that is more around a consultative/participative style. For instance his ‘weekly blog’ no longer exists in its old form instead it has been replaced with a live streaming video...
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...GE347 Writing Assignment – Week 1 Choosing a Communication Medium There are multiple communication mediums that allow the cooperation between individuals who are not physically in the same office or classroom. Choosing the correct medium depends on the needs of the group/company but it also depends, greatly, in its budget. To achieve our goal we would need a product that would allow us to easily share documents with the rest of the group as well as something that allows interaction between the members of the team so that all can share their opinions and provide feedback in all the different topics that will be discussed. Our first option would be the use of phone conferences, using this medium will allow easy interaction between members of the team since they’re all already familiar and comfortable with the use a phone. Documents could be shared via email, which is also something familiar to the members of the group. An alternate option would be the use of web conferencing. Most people work better and feel more comfortable talking to some one if they can actually see their faces. Using this method will also require the use of email to share documents. The great disadvantage with this option is the high amount of bandwidth an application like these uses and the limited bandwidth available for each team member. This could potentially cause many technical difficulties, increase frustration, decrease productivity and therefore hurt our time line. A third solution would...
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...structures controlling their every task like a process or factory worker does. There are many different things to consider when thinking about managing priorities and professional development but to begin with you need to formulate a plan. The plan should include your performance as a role model, developing your traits as an effective leader, ensuring your work goals and plan reflect the organisation's, meeting your job responsibilities, measuring and maintaining your personal performance, prioritising your work, use of technology, maintaining a work/life balance, meeting competency standards, determining your developmental needs, taking advantage of learning opportunities that best match your personal learning style, seeking and using feedback, using networks and maintaining your competitive edge. Creating, following and updating your plan is an ongoing process that requires constant reflection and tinkering to make sure it remains valid and workable for you. In developing my plan, the first thing I would plan for is ensuring I was a good role model for people I supervise or manage....
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...Giving and Receiving Feedback Leader Guide Leader Guide Table of Contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Getting Started About This Guide The Program In Perspective Program Preparation Training At A Glance iii iii vi vii ix MODULES Self-Assessment Giving Feedback Receiving Feedback Reviewing Your Assessments Feedback Reviewing Feedback? What is Feedback? How Do We Give Feedback? Redirection and Reinforcement Communication Styles What are Communication Styles? Understanding Styles Planning Feedback Why Are You Providing Feedback? Setting the Environment BridgeSpan, Inc. © 2003 Rev. Date 9/23/2003 1 2 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 17 18 21 25 26 28 Page i Table of Contents Identify Behavior and Performance Issues Providing Examples Identify Desired Results Understanding Expectations Controlling the Situation Accepting Feedback Delaying Feedback Taking Time for Feedback Useful Feedback Detailed Feedback Reinforcement Redirection Receiving Feedback Two-way Process Listening Developing Your Feedback Skills Leader Guide 30 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 45 47 52 53 55 62 Page ii Giving and Receiving Feedback Leader Guide Getting Started Getting Started About This Guide What’s the purpose of this guide? This leader guide provides a master reference document to help you prepare for and deliver the Giving and Receiving Feedback program. What will I find in the guide? This leader guide is a comprehensive package that contains the workshop delivery...
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...he problem with Compaq is that they developed too much IT architecture using financial advisory, where R&D and openness keys to development and the culture, while ignoring the environment. Open communication and trust was barricaded and destroyed by ASK (financial IS). The workers were being motivated by fear, much like Geneen in Morgan’s Images Of Organization. From an IT architecture standpoint, numbers based on the finance division depicted the entire company, even the organizational structure. The organizational structure did not align with the IT architecture, and the culture did not align with it either. Morgan stated, “The division of labor characteristic of industrial societies creates a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of “cultural management.”” Compaq started as a functional structure, changed into a divisional fairly soon and then back to functional. Culture was strongly emphasized over anything else. CASH stated, “The process encompassed a whole range of ideas, including (1) the rule of inclusion, (2) teamwork, (3) “working the issue,” and (4) consensus building.” The IS system at Compaq did allow the free-flow of information through email named “B-mail.” ASK was used for financial services so that the company could easily track orders, and know where it stood financially. The culture felt monitored by ASK operators since it “becomes responsible for...
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...Test Correlation Table Question Types/Level of Difficulty |LEARNING OBJECTIVES | |Easy |Moderate |Difficult | |1. Explain the foundations of control. |TF |1, 3 |2, 4, 5, 7 |6 | | |MC |1, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 23, |2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, |3, 4, 20, 27, 30, 31, 36,| | | |24, 34 |15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, |37 | | | | |25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, | | | | | |34, 35 | | | |ES |— |1, 2, 3 |— | |2. Identify the six phases of the corrective |TF |10, 11, 13, 15, 16 |8, 9, 17, 18 |12, 14, 19 | |control model. | | | | | | |MC |39, 43, 49, 51 |38, 42, 44, 45, 46, 50 |40, 41, 47, 48 | | ...
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...Outline for Climate Change Introduction: Why does climate change matter? Biochemically speaking, why is temperature so important? Temperature is critical to biochemical reactions, because it determines the effectiveness of the enzymes controlling the reactions. What is an ectotherm? ectotherms, organisms whose body temperature depends on the surrounding environment. What is the connection between performance and temperature in ectotherms? For these organisms, how fast they grow,1 how quickly they move,2,3 and almost everything else about their behavior and functioning is affected by external temperatures. What is the Goldilocks principle? And to what can it be applied when it comes to temperature? Goldilocks principle when the temperature is just right, enzyme activity is maximized. It is the optimum temperature, where an enzyme or things work at its best. Can be applied to enzymes, performance, population growth rates. How does temperature relate to species richness? As temperature increases the species richness (the number of species in a given area) increases So, what’s the big deal? many biological processes exhibit the same basic hump-shaped relationship with temperature, in which temperatures that are too low or too high impair or sometimes even terminate critical biological processes.1This is why climate change is the focus of so much scientific research. Part 1: Detecting climate change What is the difference between weather and climate? How is this...
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