Essays on Towne

Directors Else & Harrar (1997) paint a negative image of water engineer Mulholland in their movie Cadillac Desert: Mulholland's Dream. The film signals it will show both sides of the debate on the controversial figure, with the constant appearance of Catherine Mulholland, granddaughter of the engineer and his biographer. However, she is the only one who is supportive of Mulholland; all of the other testimonials, as well as the narrator, paint the engineer in undesirable colors. For example, the film introduces the choice of San Fernando Valley as the route of the aqueduct as a shady real estate deal, sponsored ...

Seven Steps Managers can use in Changing Organizational Culture

Clarify meaning This is the first step in changing the culture of an organization, a feature that helps the stakeholders to understand what the change means to their corporate. It includes specifications of the various attributes to embrace, characteristics to indicate the new culture, features that should be eliminated and what should be preserved in the new culture. The rationale of the above step is to show the different attributes that will be changed and those that will not change after the implementation of the new culture (Alvesson & Sveningsson, 2016). For example, it is worth understanding that an organization ...

Crowd Working

INTRODUCTION The nature of work is changing. From a fixed-hour, fixed-place and fixed pay job design, more recent job offers in current market suggest new developments in employment. In older work arrangements, employees are hired based on fixed-period contracts (usually renewable at employer's will and most consistently cancelled during periods of economic crunch and mass layoffs) and are compensated in return for labor hours spent in more or less fixed location and/or workplace layout design. The emergence of ICT innovations, particularly web-based workflow systems, has, however, introduced interesting novelties into how work can be done but also, probably more ...