...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, assistant concertmaster, and violinist at the Salzburg court. During this time as a young boy, Mozart wrote a new opera, called Mitridate, re di Ponto for the court of Milan. Mozart wrote two other operas, Ascanio in Alba and Lucio Silla . Mozart composed Piano Concerto Number 9 in E flat major in early 1777. Also in 1777, Mozart set out on a trip to find employment. The hardest part of the trip was when his mother became ill and died on July 3, 1778. Back in Salzburg by 1779, Mozart produced a series of church works. Mozart decided to settle in Vienna as a performer and composer. Mozart quickly found work in Vienna. Mozart also began writing...
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...Studies showed that a child will inherit his or her parents’ gene and it may be possible for a musically educated parent to pass on his or her musical gene to the child. One example is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). He was known as a child prodigy and started performing around major capitals of Europe as young as six years old. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a highly regarded violin teacher of that period and taught little Mozart how to compose and play keyboard at the tender age of four, which resulted in him having the ability to write big works and play many musical instruments proficiently by the age of twelve. He also had an exceptional hearing and memory that he notated almost an entire choral piece after hearing it once during his visit to Rome. He wrote many concertos (especially the piano concertos) and sonatas for his own virtuosic performance during the trip. Talent may helped in one’s musical journey but most importantly, it was Mozart’s passion in performing and music writing that won acclaim from the rich. Clara Wieck (1819-1896) is another example of a child prodigy born in a musically inclined family. Both parents played the piano and encouraged Clara to perform regularly at a very young age. She held concerts throughout Europe during her adolescence and was a very well-known piano virtuoso...
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...of each team member and on the organization. It is critical for the leader to understand his own management style and that of his team members and using the analyses in becoming a more effective coach and mentor. This analysis will look into the relationship between Wolfgang Keller and Dmitri Brodsky. Wolfgang is the Managing Director at Konsigsbrau-TAK (A) and Dmitri is a direct report. The two individuals have very different management styles, experiences and cultural backgrounds. The analysis will review their management style differences, how Wolfgang could have prevented the conflicts and how he can improve the relationship with Dmitri. Wolfgang Keller A Business Case Analysis Wolfgang Keller’s personality is best described as “getting things done”. He is motivated by involving himself in the day to day actions and by gaining immediate results which is indicative of a management style of “Dominance” according to DiSC management profile model (Inscape Publishing, 2008). Dmitri Brodsky, a direct report to Wolfgang, operates with a management style of “Conscientiousness” (Inscape Publishing, 2008) described as ensuring accuracy, maintaining stability and embracing challenging assumptions. Wolfgang and Dmitri share a common management priority of embracing challenges but they differ on how they focus their energy. Their behavior differences are also contributing to how they react to each other during conflict-situations which are increasing the level of...
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...1. Wolfgang Keller is an effective leader. He is people-oriented and results-driven, but sometimes a bit too results-driven. He has a clear vision that he shares with most of his team, and he is both self- and socially-aware. Keller follows three of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. On the other end, he also has a tendency to over-control. The positives of Keller’s leadership outweigh the negatives. Keller uses the affiliative and pacesetting leadership styles frequently. He is an obvious people-person so the affiliative method is a natural one for him. Keller prefers to build relationships with everyone—employees and distributors alike. He also requests that his employees do the same in building relationships. Keller is also very goal-oriented so he behaves with a sense of urgency and demands accuracy, setting the pace for the rest of his team. He urges everyone to have good relationships with customers and distributors, and pushes for higher market share and profitability as a result. But, according to Goleman, pacesetting is a negative form of leadership because it takes less consideration of people and relationships, and focuses more on results. Leadership, in definition, is about leading people, focusing on people. Even though pacesetting has a slightly negative effect on the climate, the affiliative style Keller usually takes helps to balance it out and the overall climate is more positive because of Keller’s leadership. Of the Five Practice of Exemplary...
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...shape employee behavior in Healthcare As the world becomes more interdependent, the business and the process of doing business are exposed to many, continuously changing dimensions, structures and opposing forces. In a global environment, culture is a critical factor whereby the process of advancing cultural intelligence and international cultural competence would be the deciding element for the success of managers and leaders especially those who perform human resource (HR) functions. Within the cultural context, common elements are to be found including shared and dynamic nature surrounding norms, values and beliefs which are expressed through different behaviors, artifacts and interactions. It is necessary then for HR managers like Wolfgang to fulfill profitable relationships vested on the capability to reconcile cultural dimensions of pay systems from the headquarters to subsidiaries. Within Healthcare, there are economic, political and cultural forces that are influencing the operation. As part of the external environment, there is the need forHealthcare to align national cultural values of thesubsidiaries with that of the organizational work culture. There are culturally indigenous and culturally alien practices within any organization that shape the actions and performance of the employees. Culture is considered as the lens through which motivation occurs. Motivations to do work differ greatly across cultures hence whey employees are subjected to within-culture and between-culture workplaces the...
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...Summary of the case “Wolfgang`s balancing act” Wolfgang Hansen, Healthcare`s new HR manager, is required to revise existing HR policies and strategies as well as the company`s global payment system. Within recent years Healthcare has been undergoing a great level of expansion, meaning that HR strategies need to be revised and adapted accordingly. Originally business processes were locally oriented though nowadays the company is aiming to develop a more transnational strategy by globally integrating operations while leaving room for local responsibilities. One of Wolfgang Hansen`s current tasks is to decide which HR practices to globally standardise and which HR practices to locally customise, such as in the case of remuneration. Healthcare`s new HR manager has realised for example that variable pay is not appreciated by every country in the same way (USA vs. Japan) and as such existing pay elements need to be revised. On the other hand locally adapting variable pay can actually lead to complications, such as supervisor biases or unfair performance measures. As such it is proposed that Wolfgang Hansen should rather concentrate upon “rates of return” by employee (performance + time spent at company) instead of locally adapting variable pay. Further it will be vital for the HR manager to clarify existing pay elements. A problem that could arise is the feeling of inequity if a group, division or unit receives similar financial rewards. As such it is proposed to also develop individual...
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...Leading Self: Wolfgang Keller 1. What is your analysis of the situation facing Keller as he returns to Ukraine? Firstly there is no doubt the situation with Dmitri Brodsky needs to be addressed. While this may seem like major issue there is even a bigger issue at hand for Keller that is actually about leading shelf. The main issue that seems to be prevalent is that Königsbräu-Hellas A.E. stem is also geared with lots of young managers with following two problems that Keller is responsible for: 1. Performance Management (as indicated in Diitri’s case) 2. How to become and effective leader. Keller himself is young, as such earning respect of his direct report as well and superiors posed challenge and the situation faced by Keller who: - Micro managed - Exhibited poor interpersonal skills While Keller had great attributes like making key decisions; achieving results; overcoming obstacles and promoting innovation. His dominating style and inability to enjoy taking opportunity to coach and mentor& recognizing his teams’ contributions is clearly visible. The fact that the team drew the inverted structure also indicates that Keller became the funnel and restricting point for all decisions making. Being empathetic or focusing on the emotional needs of his team; providing clear direction; or dealing with team members who do not meet his standards. Keller exhibits non-constructive leadership attributes from LSI point of view. 2. What are the underlying...
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...Ethical Issues and Analysis The element of the case study to be analyzed is the conflicting personalities between a manager and his subordinate. The case study opens with the dilemma of Keller contemplating what he should do about Brodsky: The most pressing problem concerned Dmitri Brodsky, Königsbräu-TAK’s commercial director. As Keller saw it, he had three options. One option was to fire Brodsky or, at the minimum, not give him an annual salary increase, which might have the same effect. Keller suspected that firing him would not be well received by Königsbräu’s corporate headquarters, and Brodsky’s voluntary departure might also raise questions. A second alternative was to try, once again, to help Brodsky improve his performance. The third alternative was to try to reorganize around Brodsky to compensate for his inadequacies, perhaps by splitting marketing and sales. (GABARRO, 2008) In conundrums such as the case study poses it’s important to think through the fact that managerial decisions have career implications for both the manager and subordinate. It’s important to recognize individual differences in employees and management when making hard decisions for the betterment of the workplace, no matter the circumstance. Chapter eight of the text, Business Ethics, opens with the statement: Employees have all sorts of job-related concerns. Generally speaking, they want to do well at their assignments, to get along with their colleagues, and to have their contributions...
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...psychology looks at things as a whole versus in pieces or parts. The thoughts of Gestalt psychology is that we are processing the world around us, we don’t just focus on the small, seemingly insignificant things. Instead our mind perceive our surroundings as parts of a greater whole. The Gestalt psychology school played a major role in the study of human perception and sensation. The guiding idea behind Gestalt psychology is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Gestalt psychology was found by 3 principle psychologists. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler. Max Wertheimer initially studied law, but took an interest in perception after noticing flashing train lights at a train station gave the illusion of motion. From there he went on to change his focus from law to psychology. While at the University of Frankfurt's Psychological Institute, he began to work with two assistants named Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffka. The three colleagues and would go on to form the school of thought known as Gestalt psychology. Thanks to his work during his time at the New School for Social Research in New York City, it became one of the leading schools of psychology during the early part of the twentieth century. Psychologist Solomon Asch wrote of Max Wertheimer the “thinking of Max Wertheimer has penetrated into nearly every region of psychological inquiry and has left a permanent impress on the minds of psychologists and on their daily work. The consequences have been...
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...PSY/310 11/09/2015 University of Phoenix Major contributors of Gestalt Psychology were Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler. The main observations, questions, and principles characteristics from Gestalt Psychology became part of every American Psychologists mental equipment. Mark Wertheimer wrote a paper on phi motion in 1912, which was known to start Gestalt Psychology. Throughout this paper I will review the main contributing events in Gestalt Psychology and its influences in America. Contributions Gestalt contributed to therapy known as Gestalt therapy which focuses on raising individuals boundaries, needs, and sensory. This therapy helps contribute to one’s own self-worth. Gestalt has always focused on whole rather than individuals. Gestalt psychology focuses on human experiencing psychological events as a whole. Wertheimer shifted his interest from law to philosophy and psychology. He had an influence on other things besides the school of thought such as sensation and perception. Kurt Koffka main interest of study was colors such as the difference of color with short and long wave lengths. As a professor at Smith College where he studied the principles of Gestalt, concentrating on focusing and memory. Wolfgang Kohler worked side by side with Werheimer and Koffka at the University of Frankfurt where he studied perceptual ideas through the study of chimpanzees. Principles Gestalt...
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...James Keen Mr. Webb English 1 H March 19, 2013 Wolfgang Peterson’s Troy, represents the idea of the Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell’s multiple ways throughout all stages of the movie. Joseph Campbell’s idea of a hero’s journey is the foundation of numerous heroes nowadays. Multiple hit movies and books have their storylines based on the steps of Campbell’s ideas. The call to action is the very first step in the hero’s journey. Achilles, the main character of Troy, is called to fight for Agamemnon, the Greek king who wanted to destroy Troy, his only opposition. But Achilles refuses to fight for him, because he is disgusted by Agamemnon. This is the refusal to the call, another stage in the Hero’s Journey. But Achilles is convinced by Odysseus and Achilles own mother to fight in the war against Troy, to earn his name for eternity. This is a direct example of the encouragement of a wise old man or woman, the next step in the Hero’s Journey! Crossing the threshold is the next stage, and in Troy, Achilles “crosses the threshold” when he lands on the beaches of Troy. Achilles leads the Greeks to an easy victory, slaughtering all the Trojans on the beach and taking the temple of Apollo. Achilles then after, faces the supreme ordeal, the next stage in the hero’s journey. In this case, Achilles must fight the man who killed his younger cousin, who he was training to fight, and enter Troy. After he defeated the man and Entered Troy, he received his Elixir or treasure, the following...
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...Gestalt Psychology Reflection The school of thought Gestalt psychology began in the late 19th century in Austria and Germany. Gestalt psychology is based on the idea that perception is experienced in larger wholes, or gestalts (Cherry, 2014). Psychologists that use this school of thought believe that instead of breaking down behavior and thoughts into small elements, behavior should be looked at as a unified whole experience (Kowalski, PhD. & Westen, 2010). The assumption behind Gestalt psychology is that an individual’s mind functions by recognizing structures when none is seen. Gestalt psychology was developed from the initial ideas of structuralism and functionalism regarding perception. The Antecedent Influences on Gestalt psychology accepted the value of consciousness and focused on the wholeness of perception. Immanuel Kant and Enst Mach proposed two different propositions regarding Antecedent Influences on Gestalt psychology. Kant proposed, “pieces of information are organized in meaningful ways through association and form a coherent perceptual experience," while Mach proposed “perception of an object does not change despite changing our orientation to the object (Schultz & Schultz, 2012).” According to Schultz & Schultz (2012), another early influence regarding Gestalt psychology was Phenomenology. Phenomenology was influenced by German philosophy and psychology. It is a doctrine based on the “unbiased description of immediate experience just as it occurs...
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...Task One Reading and Defence of The Crucible Prepared for Ms. Mussig Prepared by Maya Young English Extension Part One: The Reading Created from the mind of the world renowned playwright and author Arthur Miller, is the horrifying story of deceit, accusation and guilt of The Crucible. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a confronting play that explores the unfathomable true events that took place in the small religious village of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, where by members of the Salem community began accusing others of dealing with and practising the magic of the Devil. These accusations are what led to the Salem witch-trials. Through this play Miller is able to emphasise the absurdity of these trials, which resulted in the hangings of twenty innocent people. I personally came across The Crucible through my English Extension class. To be perfectly honest, when I first picked up this text, I was unsure of what to expect. Apart from reading Shakespeare, I had never been exposed to reading in the playwright form. I did not know what my approach to the play was going to be or how I would react to reading it, or if there was a certain way in which I was supposed to be affected by it. I also had yet to read a text written by Arthur Miller, so I was unaware of his style of writing and again did not know what to expect from it. After finishing the play for the first time I was satisfied that I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the story, whilst developing a love...
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... SRTM Univ,Nanded,India . almeghdad@ymail.com Phenomenology of Reading A number of poststructuralist movements such as deconstruction had challenged the formalist and New Critical assertion of the objectivity of the text. But it was not until the 1970s that a number of critics at the University of Constance in Germany, the Constance School, began to formulate a systematic reader-response or “reception” theory. The leading members of this school were Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Such phenomenological theories deal with the important role of the reader in the overall structure of any given literary text. The reader plays a great role in shaping how the work will be understood and what meanings it will have. Each new generation and each new group of readers in a new setting brings to a literary work different code for understanding it. Does writing require reading? What does reading do for writing that writing cannot do for itself? Different schools have different answers, but for phenomenology of literature, the answer is YES. Reading is ontological requirement for writing. Since writing in itself is not complete and indeterminate, it ontologically requires reading completement. So...
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...Brittany Charpentier 18 October 2011 Reader Response Criticism of James Joyce’s “Araby” Though there are many different theories to interpret the short story “Araby” I have chosen a reader response theory known as transactional reader response. In doing so I hope to show the connection between text and reader and how our emotions and state of mind directly reflect on how we interpret works of literature. In transactional reader response theory, presented by both Louise Rosenblatt and Wolfgang Iser, I will be using the text of “Araby” as my blueprint to guide me to my conclusions and how I interpret the text. According to Iser the text provides readers with two kinds of meanings determinate and indeterminate: “Determinate meaning refers to what might be called the facts of the text, certain events in the plot or physical descriptions clearly provided by the words on the page. In indeterminate meaning or indeterminacy, refers to “gaps” in the text – such as actions that are not clearly explained or seem to have multiple explanations…” (Tyson 174) By using both indeterminate and determinate meanings within the blueprint of “Araby” I will construct and describe the reading process I undertake. In the beginning of the blueprint we are introduced to the narrator’s surroundings in which he lives. He describes the street he lives on as isolated and goes on to include telling of the previous owner of the house being a deceased priest. The surroundings of the narrator and the...
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