Essays on Bosses

Analysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

Instutional AffilationAnalysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

There are several things that The Bobs did right in the interview. For instance, he and his associate were able to remain calm and composed despite the fact that Peter seemed to be disorganized and unprepared for the interview. He was also able to ask Peter some questions that would help in job analysis and work flow analysis. For example, he asks Peter what his typical work day is like. Such a question can help in understanding the activities a worker is involved in during a working day and how they are undertaken

What is ‘wrong’ about how “The Bobs” conducted the interview?

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Most people are unfortunate to work with a bad boss at least once in their lives. Such bosses can be draining and can siphon all the satisfaction from your rewarding job or position. Such bosses have a way of undervaluing their employees, and eventually, make them seek better opportunities. However, in some cases, one is expected to work with bad bosses and find ways to cope and manage their shortcomings and flaws. Research shows that a majority of people that quit their jobs do it because of their bosses (Warrell). Another study states that workplace depression is often associated ...

The word “Stress” raises the alarm in the mind of a normal human being as soon as it is mentioned. However, stress may sometimes be good for the human being if tackled correctly. If the stress level is within the comfort zone of a person, it may even be constructive and help him focus on the job more. It is when the stress exceeds the bounds of the comfort zone that it becomes disturbing (Helpguide.org, n.d.). Workplace stress is one of the most common types of stress known to the humankind. Induced by events such as economic and financial ...

Module 1 – Case

Part A 1a. Sims, R. (2002). Teaching business ethics for effective learning (1st ed.). Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books.

1b. Reflection through Debriefing in Teaching Business Ethics

1c. The Environment for Teaching Business Ethics is very important (Sims, 2002). 1d. There is an ascent in the in teaching business ethics in various faculties with the level headed discussion of who is obligated to teach the topic begins. Since most business faculties have zero formal training with the regards to ethics, the presumption made is, faculty trained especially in ethic ought to play the part. Be that as it may, there are critiques against ethics and the most critical ...

Assignment 2: Employment-At-Will Doctrine

Abstract Employment-At-Will Doctrine states that states that an employee or an employer can decide to end the employment contract with or without a prior notification. A workplace has a lot of complications and requires some rules and regulations to govern it. Admittedly, there are some exceptions that limit the full application of the employment at will doctrine as the exceptions challenge it. The paper will expound three major exceptions including public policy exception, implied contract and the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. Additionally, a case scenario involving employees of a company and the bosses will be ...

According to careful estimation, Millennials, today, account for the highest percentage of total population in the U.S. as well as across the world as also shown in the figure provided below.

The Millennial Generation in Numbers

Figure 1. Goldman Sachs (2016). Millenials Coming of Age. Retrieved from http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/millennials/ Youth participation in total population has always been critically important and center of attention for authors, thinkers, and scholars around the globe as they endeavored to investigate the role of the young generation in different dimensions such as social, economic, environmental, religious ones. (PWC, 2016). What is applicable to organizational dynamics? Due to their growing influence, ...

American pulp fiction is iconic; it influenced the development of American culture for decades and maintains a lasting influence to this day in the form of comic books, movies, and current literature. Pulp fiction was printed on cheap pulp paper during the 1930s and 1940s, though they were first created in 1896, and was hugely successful because of the rising literacy rates of the American population and the cheapness and proliferation of the products themselves. Pulp fiction eventually lost its popularity during World War II when paper rationing affected the population and movies, television, comic books, and normal paperbacks ( ...

Literature Review

Introduction According to careful estimation, Millennials, today, account for the highest percentage of total population in the U.S. as well as across the world as also shown in the figure provided below: (Goldmansachs, 2016) It is an admitted fact that participation of youth in total population has always been critically important and center of attention for authors, thinkers, and scholars around the globe. They endeavored to investigate the role of the young generation in different dimensions such as society, economy, environment, patterns of religious beliefs, etc (PWC, 2016). So is applicable to organizational dynamics. Due to their growing influence, ...

Introduction/Problem Statement

Despite much hullabaloo on women's equality and empowerment, it is not yet ascertained that the fairer sex is considered as equal when it comes to employment. Four decades after the enactment of Equal Pay Act, research finds that the salary of female bosses runs 35 percent short of their male colleagues. Statistics galore revealing the wage differential across occupations and industries. By contrast, critics on the 'right' opine that the pay gap is just a 'myth' as women deserve to get paid less because they work in less demanding jobs than male counterparts. Obviously, the issue carries much heft ...

Business Ethics Capstone Project

Introduction Business and ethics are really important in all aspects of life. There is the need for every human being to follow rules and this includes generally accepted morals as well as laws. In most cases, laws seem to evolve from morals and generally accepted customs and practices. However, laws come with specific sanctions whilst morals often come with softer consequences like reputational issues. There are many situations where organizations set up ethics as a means of ensuring that the workers observe moral standards in order to reduce the risks of legal problems and issues in its operations. Ethical ...

Culture is the way a group of people live and it provides a kind of software for the mind of a specific group and defines what must be done in certain situations and circumstances. This implies that people get to accept and apply certain trends and actions in some situations. This is learnt over the years and developed by groups of people over centuries of surviving and living as societies. Therefore, when a person moves from one culture to another, it is likely that the individual will feel a lot of changes in the world around him or her. ...

Literature Review

Literature review Theoretical Concepts of the Topic Definition of millennial Before digging into the details of the topic, first, it is essential to understand the idea of a millennial. According to the definition of Smola and Sutton (2002), people who born between 1979 and 1994 are considered as millennial generation. These are the people that are self absorbed and overly self-confident; hence, they are considered as “look at me generation”. Millennial are continued to enter at the workplace in a larger amount (Smola and Sutton, 2002). The generation has an immense ability to develop organizational performance and to build ...

Sometimes it happens that one has no time to go shopping and listen to customers` dissatisfaction of service. To avoid it, some people buy goods online. There are a lot of online services nowadays, but they are not all of great quality. Zappos Incorporation is a clothing and shoe online store, which refutes any complaints, as employees there care about clients in the best way. They provide good service and a huge choice of goods in order to satisfy different needs. The reasons for incorporation`s success and ways of getting essential benefits will be examined in this paper. ...

mmmmm dd, yyyy So far, I consider three milestones in my leadership journey and I was able to associate my experiences with some of my learning in school about leadership. My responses and thoughts in those situations were also influenced by my personality and background.

Leadership Experience 1: Captain of the Football Team

As captain of the football team, I had to lead 18 teen players who are all energetic but with different personalities. My coach told me my role was to assist him in practice and make sure that all members were following his instructions. At first, I thought that strictly following the coach would ensure ...

Abstract

The paper investigates state and international policies on e-waste and on so called “planned obsolescence”. But first it explores the personal emotional story behind the most important and meaningful electronic device in the author’s life. Keywords: favorite personal electronic device, international policies on e-waste, planned obsolescence problem

My favorite device

My favorite and really meaningful for my whole life electronic device now is the Seagate Fast HDD Portable Drive which can store up to 4 terabytes of files and documents of any nature. It looks like a black cigarette package with attached to it a short 40 cm cable with the ...

Introduction

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of several instruments that will investigate the personalities in people and assess them and give results that are easy to remember (in this case, the result is a four letter designation that lists preferences, or styles, in descending order). There are eight of these preferences, listed as pairs of opposites: Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I), Sensing (S) or Intuition (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). Since one of each of contrasting tendencies will be listed, that results in 16 possibilities to describe the person's personality. It is ...

One of the constant things in life, apart from changes, are challenges. This is because, life was not designed to be easy. The struggles that we experience in our everyday lives are part of the journey of our development as individuals. Every individual living in this world is a peculiar being. The problems and trials that each of us are facing, appear in various forms. The problem of some may appear less than what others experience, but this does not mean that life is easier for them. It is always possible that different people experience the same degree of ...

Medieval Europe Prostitution

Depiction of Women in the French Fabliaux Within the French fabliaux, women are portrayed in many different ways. However, the two most dominating depictions are as the heroic figure, or the unsavory figure. There are numerous articles and essays written on this topic, supporting one side or the other, explaining the reason behind why women are portrayed in a certain way within the fabliaux. However, are we really able to support strictly one side of the argument? The history of prostitution explains to us that there could be a reason why there exists such conflicting portrayal of women within ...

Define the differences in the “push”, “passage”, and “pull” factors of three different immigrant groups which come to America between 1607 and 1830? Use testimonies from the various websites provided in the first three weeks of readings which illustrate individuals from these groups. Also, are there any testimonies which present how the resident Anglo-Americans feel about subsequent groups which came to America, especially after the Revolution? (For example, what does Benjamin Franklin think about German immigrants and their presence in Pennsylvania?) There were four waves of immigration into America. The first one took place between 1790 and 1820. The ...

Introduction

Social media applications such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram have become a staple in our everyday lives. Because social media has become so prevalent within our society, it is easy to come to the conclusion that social media has a direct impact on our lives. Social media has both positive, and negative benefits that both work together to form our lived experience of the modern day technological revolution. The consequences revolving around of the misuse of social media have reported to have devastating long term effects on the individual. While, the positive benefits of social media could ...

Sarah is facing a very common ethical dilemma that many professionals face when they are affronted with the pressures of a new positions and the future prospect of being promoted, (Gentile, Mary, 2016). The lines of ethics tend to have a very gray area that stem from the desire to satisfy a new boss and the loyalty to a former team that depends on ethics for record keeping purposes. Sarah’s moves have to be calculated in this instance so that she does not pay later on for a very poorly formulated decision. Consider the answers to the following ...

Leadership concepts

Health communication professionals, as well as researchers, have developed a variety of tools and methods of intervention at the individual level of the behavioral process associated with health and to advance systematic improvement related to the preface of healthcare organizations and issues within society in general. Crucial illustrations were the formation of the Health Commission Division of the international commission Association. Current perspective on health communication includes analyses of communication processes from the vantage of senders, channel servicers, and feedback. These processes occur at the individual level of communication in health context or setting. At the individual level, health ...

POLICY A: Provision of a mandatory yearly training to officers.

Cost The total cost of implementing this alternative will be approximate $100 billion per year. The cost would relate to expertise hiring and resources mobilization as well as logistics arrangements. Further, considering that the policy would have wider reaching effects on the whole police force makes it more beneficial regardless of the higher cost.

Stability

Can objectives be achieved with variable change In view of the substantial cost for the policy implementation, the greatest variable change change that could affect its success is the lack of funding. However, in cases of less funding from the government that is the main ...

As an Employer, What are Your Legal Obligations Concerning Religion in the Workplace What Policies You Put in Your Employees Handbook? Religious in the American work environment is among the most antagonistic and troublesome territories for representatives and managers to explore. In our inexorably differing and religiously pluralistic culture, the attempt will undoubtedly happen, and if The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) measurements are correct, it is occurring at a regular enlivening pace. EEOC religion-based charges of separation have expanded about 41% since 1997, and payouts have expanded around 174% (Religion-Based Charges FY 1997 - FY 2015). The risk ...

Schultz’s love is a feeder, and compassion a breeder.

Winning millions of hearts, he emerged as a leader. In business, heads are preferred to hearts as, it is believed that commercial brains can generate more revenue profit and, on the contrary, an affectionate heart does not do any good to the balance sheet of a company. This is true but only in the short run. The companies, in the long run, need loyalty of its employees, who will stay only if they feel cared and valued. By his impressive results, Mr. Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, has proved that nurturing emotions of people not only drives profits but ...

Introduction

According to Johnson & Rea (2009), bullying in the nursing workplace is a major problem. Based on the data collected by researchers, it is evident that 23.7% of the sample surveyed indicated that they had experienced workplace bullying in the last six months. The article by Johnson (2009) supports this viewpoint since it concludes that bullying is rampant and negatively affects nurses by demoralizing them and affecting their work performance. The most common form of bullying in the workplace is the use of power by superiors against subordinates. The definition of the word bullying means the use of superior strength ...

Introduction

Avatar is a science fiction film that was released in 2009. It was directed by famous film director James Cameron. It centered on the story of how humans started an expedition to colonize Pandora, a habitable moon of a gas giant encircling one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest one from earth. The story was set in the mid-22nd century when the humans from Earth have already depleted all its non-renewable resources and have had no choice but to look for other sources of resources outside. A team of explorers were set to examine ...

There was a time in my career when I was in a dilemma whether to quit or to assert my values in the implementation of our project. There is this project on poverty alleviation and we were task to make the project socially acceptable through a campaign drive including press releases. Personally, I didn’t like the project simply because it does not really alleviate the people from poverty because it is dole out. In my opinion which is drawn from many dole out projects, it will only create dependency among the poor people instead of empowering them towards ...