...KDA222 AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN / Mohamad Afiqq Che Zani @ Jailani 175756 17. Identify key urban design themes in the work of Donovan, in either residential or commercial/public buildings. This essay will explain about the key features and themes of the urban design as in BVN Donovan Hill works in their commercial/public buildings. Donovan Hill architects was established in Brisbane in 1992 by two principles, Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill are graduate of the University of Queensland. Most of their design approach practiced in Australia is influenced by United Kingdom and United States architects and theorist such as Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander and Colin St John Wilson.1 BVN Architecture is one of Australia’s biggest architectural practices, well-known for award winning across a broad and diverse portfolio in Australia and outside Australia. “The architectural engagement ranges from civic and institutional projects to office and residential design, tourism projects, industrial developments, master planning and urban design”.2 Some of their notable projects focused in this essay is in commercial/public building which is designed based on approaching the inevitability of the environment that is addressed with comprehensive understanding of the client, needs of the people, processes and places that illustrate the realm of their culture that aligns with it’s urban design.3. “Urban design defined as planned activities and products intended at resulting from the physical...
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...Abstract Coca-Cola has a different way of conducting business than most companies. They start with looking for “secret ingredients” that potential employees may have that will help grow the recipe for success for the individual and the company. By hiring diverse individuals to fill unique positions, and not limit their roles within the organization, there are endless avenues for growth and success. Every employee is valued and appreciated and encouraged to give feedback and ideas for ways that the company can be better. Through this different approach, Coca Cola is growing more every year, thanks to the people who work there. Assignment 2: Job and The Design of Work 1. What do you think is the most important emerging issue in the design of work? Diversity and limitlessness are the factors that stand out in the case study about the Coca-Cola Company. With Coca-Cola being a worldwide company that offers such an array of products, they must hire flexible and diverse employees to support the needs of the still-growing company. The employees’ reviews reaffirmed that by hiring a diverse group of employees and task them with different challenges in different countries, their choice to staff the company in this way has been successful. By working with other unique individuals, they are enlightened by new methods of thinking and working. As the company continues to grow and adapt in the markets they serve, they are forced to be fluid with their products and marketing...
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...Finding the Leader in You: Self-Assessment / Johari W Leadership and Organizational October 24, 2013 Develop a profile of your personality characteristics and assessment results My career development has turned me into the person that I am today within my work environment. I have learned and overcome many obstacles along the way. I would like to think of my career as consistent growth and change. I am always willing to adapt and adjust within my position as time goes on and technology becomes more enhanced. My career has leaded me to a path where I can always advance within my job and there is always knowledge and experience to grow from. One of my biggest personality traits that are of importance to me is to hold high ethical and moral standing within my company. I had to progress in my company from a server to working within the Human Resource Department. It is my duty as an HR assistant to ensure that all of our employees are treated fairly and equally as for their human rights. As professionals, we are expected to exhibit individual leadership as a role model for maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct. And we are ethically responsible for promoting and fostering fairness and justice for all employees and their organizations. We are also entitled as HR professionals to consider and protect the rights of individuals, especially in the achievement and propagation of information while ensuring truthful...
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...common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable 6 chars Sm grps (2-10), work to achieve common goal, interdep mems, bounded/stable ovr t, auth to manage own work/internal processes, op in soc context (not island) When should use team team’s OBJs…..hi complex + interdep complex is task - breadth/depth of skills/expertise/interdepent task -pooled split up, do apart, glue together -sequential 1 way dependency -reciprocal 2 way Leadership: - main lship styles coercive - immediate compliance from ees use str8fwd tasks problem EEs crisis sits NOT use complex tasks self-mot, talented EEs ovr LT authoritative - LT direction and vision for team use new vision/clear direction needed (times of ch) new team member needs guidance you’re expert/source of auth NOT use EE exp, know much as you if not more promoting self-managed teams/participative decis-making affiliative leader - creating harmony among EEs and btwn l and team use str8fwd and perf is adequate diverse/conflicting grps to work together EEs exp personal difficulties NOT use bad EEs perf corrective pef feedback is nec crisis/complex sits, clarity control needed EE task-oriented individs democratic - building commitment and consensus among EEs Use competent, have as much/more knowl as you mems’ work muts b coord you’re unclear about best approach/have competent mems who might have clearer ideas NOT use crisis, no t for meetings/discussions ...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- OIE 500 – Analyzing and Designing Operations to Create Value ------------------------------------------------- Syllabus – Fall 2015 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Prof. Walter Towner ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Phone: (508) 944-3862 cell ------------------------------------------------- fabman@wpi.edu ------------------------------------------------- Course web page: http://my.wpi.edu ------------------------------------------------- Overview and Objectives Many management gurus and leaders posit that an organization’s business processes and operations are critical strategic capabilities, vital to organizational survival and success as global competitors. We will study processes and methods to create value from operations. Our Mission The Department of Management at WPI is committed to providing education,...
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...UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE La Verne, CA Chapter 7 Creating a Motivation Work Setting Job Design: The Social Information Processing Model Prepared for John C. Sivie BUS 551 CRN 1178 Organizational Theory and Behavior Prepared by Hanguang. Liu 3/7/2013 College of Business and Public Management Department of Business Administration Job Design: The Social Information Processing Model The social information processing model is the job design which based on the information from others or the employees’ own behaviors to affect the employees’ views and ideas of the design of their works. There is an example to protrude the social information processing model: Doherty and Cantu got law degrees from the same university and were hired by the same law firm. They work in different department and report to different partners. Their working situations and outcomes are similar. However, their reactions to the job are different. Doherty feels that he is so lucky he got this interesting and challenging work and he has the high salary makes it better; but Cantu dissatisfy this job because he must spent half of the working time doing assignments for the partners, and hates he does not have the chances to do work for the customer, his high salary is based on the long working hours. The Role of the Social Environment The social information processing model gives some reasons why Doherty’s and Cantu’s attitudes are so different. The social environment will offer information...
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...specified work instead of doing by one single individual. With the help of teamwork, every team member has an appointed goal to focus on in order to increase the efficiency of whole work. The movie October Sky , which is directed by Joe Johnston, shows the teamwork of 4 high school students who become inspired to learn how to build rockets and get success in the National Science Fair. The main character Homer dreams of launching a rocket ,which obeys his father's wish as being a miner in a mining town called Coalwood. His high school teacher Miss Riley encourages Homer to follow his heart and do his best to finish his yearning rocket. At the end, Homer and his team win the prize and get college scholarships. In the real life, teamwork is also important to be applied to solve many problems. A few years ago, my friends and I worked on a group project about photosynthesis. We were required to research how photosynthesis worked and made data report. So 2 team members worked on recording the data, and another team member and I worked on finding the theory of photosynthesis from books and internet. Because of appropriate arrangement of every member's work, we finished the project very quickly. In conclusion, teamwork is necessary to people's daily lives. There are three benefits of teamwork: teamwork can make the work much more easily to do., teamwork encourages people in many ways, and teamwork improves people's abilities. First of all, teamwork can make the work much more...
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...Asking folks who own your product to submit videos about the unique ways in which they use it is not crowdsourcing. Nor is asking them to take “action shots” of your product in use that they would, in turn, post on their company blog. Just two of the many healthy ways companies interact with their customers, to say nothing of using social media outlets like Facebook or Twitter to start a conversation. For our purposes, I’ll narrow down what crowdsourcing is to this: Asking people to compete against each other to produce significant branding collateral for only the promise of pay to the ultimate winner. Here’s how it works: Let’s say, for instance, a company needs a new logo. That company turns to the “crowd” – you, me and everyone else out there who wants to participate with the promise that, if chosen, there’s money waiting at the finish line. We submit our designs, the company picks a “winner” and they get the money. The company gets what they want, most likely at a very nominal cost. Sounds good, right? Some lucky designer might get a really prominent piece for his or her portfolio. The company gets new...
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...be delayed a week or more? As Project Manager, I believe ZAP responsible, as Bears have managed to handle the refurbishment of the project. ZAP is responsible as no contract was signed regarding any issues. As Bears being a construction company, they are handling all the painting, interior work of the project. They signed a memo with John, the past Project Manager, whose project I have taken over. As the project discusses an issue of doing a quick review of seeing Bear being responsible, I simply believe that does not make sense or prove anything of having them held responsible for the inspections. Bear can’t make efforts to work on the issue as they have already signed the form of contract with John. Bear have told their responsibilities of work in the contract which we should look upon. ZAP shall be held responsible as they are a healthcare industry and doing an inspection is what they should be aware of as they are dealing with medicines which is fragile to human’s health. According to the World Class Contracting Book, the diagram below discusses the process of fulfilling a good project. It is always important to know what the beginning and end will bring to the process of the work asked for. The project always as an end date to the reason why it is called a project and not another term in this case. I find the term of communication important as it inputs...
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...identifying four interrelated dimensions of teamwork effectiveness: attitudinal, behavioural, operational and financial. The first two represent transmission mechanisms by which organizational performance can be improved. The latter two provide direct measures of organizational outcomes. The review shows that teamworking has a positive impact on all four dimensions of performance. It also reveals that, when teamwork is combined with structural change, performance can be further enhanced. The paper concludes by highlighting some important research gaps that future studies could address. Introduction Teamwork has emerged in recent years as one of the most important ways in which work is being reorganized (Osterman 1994; Waterson et al. 1997). This idea of delegating responsibilities to work groups has been diffused under a range of different labels. Human resource management (HRM), modern sociotechnical theory, business process re-engineering and lean production all embrace the core principles of teamworking (Benders and Van Hootegem 1999; De Sitter et al. 1997; Kleinschmidt and Pekruhl 1994; Kuipers and Van...
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...Evaluation My intention for my exam piece was to continue my work on the human form that I had explored within my personal investigation but apply it to the Mythology question within my exam. Because I wanted to retain my focus on the human figure I focused my work on exploring elements and creatures within mythology that carried similar characteristics and features, e.g. mermaids, sirens, gods and others which also carry animalistic elements such as the Minotaur and Faun. However unlike my personal investigation I was unsure in the beginning as to whether I wanted to continue my focus just on the female form or develop my work further into male representations. Previously within my AS exam work I had kept to a relatively small scale, but during the development to A2 I found I was able to produce larger pieces that contained a greater level of detail and took longer to construct. As the exam was to fulfil 15 hours I decided that I would produce one or two large pieces as part of my final piece, I knew that this would be possible has I had been able to produce a life size figure of a woman and infant within the final 10 hours of my personal investigation. Although I was aware that I wanted to create a large mythological human figure I was unsure as to the exact area that I would limit the subject of my work to, in the beginning I contemplated with the idea of creating a large (but not life size) figure of one creature from within mythology however I had already created something...
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...MANAGEMENT : H301 A Study of Job Analysis and Design in Mobile Network Operators of the Telecommunications Industry in Bangladesh Objectives of the Report Objectives of the Repot To determine the job analysis and design techniques used by the mobile phone operators in Bangladesh. To evaluate the effectiveness of each firm’s job analysis and design techniques and cross-examining them to make a comparison To provide possible recommendations on ways to improve each firm’s job analysis and design techniques Research Methodology Research Methodology Primary Sources Questionnaire Secondary Sources Journals Research Papers Internet Limitations Limitations Only one official from each company was interviewed Difficult to contact HR managers due to their work schedules Hesitant to provide information due to their confidential nature Difficult to assess reliability as based mainly on interviews Job Analysis and Design Job Analysis: Importance & Purpose Primary task for setting a baseline for each job Enables HR professionals to effectively manage job-related activities Systematic approach to defining the job role, description, requirements, responsibilities, evaluation, etc. Legal validation of employment decisions Defines duties & tasks Identifies reporting relationships Basis for determining relative worth of jobs Identifies redundancy Job Design Refers to the way that a set of tasks, or...
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...HIGH-INVOLVEMENT WORK DESIGN AND JOB SATISFACTION ROBERT D. MOHR and CINDY ZOGHI Job satisfaction has important economic effects. Low job satisfaction is associated with higher rates of quitting and higher rates of absenteeism; high job satisfaction correlates with improved job performance and organizational citizenship behaviour. Dissatisfaction therefore may result in higher labour costs and lower productivity. This article studies the relationship between job satisfaction and high-involvement. The huge no. of observation (25000) has allowed the authors to draw general insights about the relationship. Also authors could check additional variables which may be indicator of dissatisfaction and thus allowed the authors to test how broad a range of satisfaction measures can be linked to high-involvement work practises. Finally, because they used a data set that includes information from both employers and employees and follows both groups over time, they can control for a number of specific sources of bias, and look for evidence on the direction of causality. Background of research: A large body of literature on socio-technical systems, total quality management, and high-performance work systems argues that jobs with a high degree of employee involvement might increase satisfaction. The existing literature also recognizes, however, that even if a positive association between the characteristics of work and the evaluative judgment that individuals make about their jobs...
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...Insurance Adjusters is a medium-sized company with 135 employees and seven managers. They process the claims of insurance holders who have experienced various misfortunes (eg: Hurricanes, floods etc). Their primary job is to determine the amount to be paid out and process the paperwork for some of the smaller insurance agencies in the area so that the final payment can be issued. Although the company is just eight years old, it has done quite well and has seen a large increase in business. It has a reputation for quality work and quick turnaround for claims. Because customers are often eager to move on after the misfortune strikes, Rainyday has built a loyal following by the insurance agencies that depend on it. Delayed claims often cost these companies’ time and money when they have to interact with continuous customer complaints. To accommodate the increase in customers, six months ago, Rainyday expanded its office in the current building and upgraded all its equipment to make the company more efficient and to allow the workers to process the claims more quickly. In particular, the computers were upgraded to facilitate speedier turn-around and higher capacity from claims processors. The new computers represent a large investment the company cannot afford to underutilize. Since installation of the computers, Rainyday has experienced a number of problems with voluntary turnover among claims processors as well as decreased productivity and increased errors. Recently, the...
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...Next, part of the analysis was an employee survey and found many employees were not happy and did not trust the company. They had an uncertainty of their job and were not motivated so Kerrie wanted the design team to design account management in a way that would motivate and be rewarding for employees (Gurley & Tavakoli, n.d.). The redesign team also found what competitors were doing in the same industry and felt there were areas that Access could innovate and cut costs. In conclusion, Access was facing a recession with losses in the next quarter, and management had to make cuts to suppress stock price decline. The company was in the "decline" stage of the organizational life cycle (Lester & Parnell, 2006). Competitors in this industry had started utilizing the internet to costs and Access was at a disadvantage because they had not focused on the internet. Kerrie had found areas to make the company more efficient and cut costs while being...
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