Flexibility is the basis for Chouinard’s work methodology. Flexibility in scheduling allows the balance between work and life. Thus, the Patagonia Company does not care when an employee works as long as the work is completed without impacting fellow coworkers (A Little Enlightened Self-Interest, 2010). A healthy life to work balance is a critical aspect to employee happiness. Thus, Patagonia’s implementation of a casual, but productive work environment is heavily sought.…
I will apply the concepts learned from this workshop in my educational pursuits here at the University of Phoenix. Having access to the New Classroom will allow me to easily access my instructor, my assignments, my learning teams, and even my grades by having everything conveniently located in one place.…
For the Session Long Project paper, I will be applying the concepts from the background materials to my own personal workplace experiences.…
Swallow V, Chalmers H, Miller J (2004), Partnerships in Work Based Learning, Newcastle: Northumbria University Press.…
A scheme of work is, as defined by Ian Reece and Stephen Walker (Teaching, Training and Learning, a practical guide Page 240) “a series of planned learning experiences, sequenced to achieve the course aims in the most effective way”. It may include subject content, teaching strategies, student activities, assessments, evaluations and resources. But Reece goes on to explain that and scheme of work is complex and may be influenced by external sources such as Students behaviour or resources that are available. This is all too apparent within my own specialism in Health and Safety; my scheme of work must be flexible as this course is taught over a relatively short period of time to a large number of students (up to 7000 in a year) all with different abilities and different job titles. It is key that the subject matter is taught on the same level to all abilities as all have a responsibility toward health and safety . Regardless of job title all have to acknowledge the importance of the core material and be able to act upon it within their own role. Be it a manager who has to ensure safety of all their staff or the individual who has to act in the safest possible way to protect themselves and others. My scheme of work has to work for the large variety of students who attend so it must be precise within the eyes of the law but also give the knowledge and practical application of health and safety. Looking at the different theories of learning it is possible to see which theories of learning have a place within my session.…
References: Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments, 2nd ed. American Library Association, 2001. Retrevied from http://www.ala.org/ on January 20,2013…
A crucial amount of changes enter one's life when stepping into a higher level institution. One has more independence and responsibility of one's own actions and decisions. In order to pay all the expenses, students get jobs. Consequently, time becomes an obstacle when one has to juggle course work as well as his or her job. A few strategies that help deal with this issue include forming a personal schedule and setting reminders, planning ahead and keeping journals, and exercise.…
Thompson, K. (2012) Working through Telecommuting. Phi Kappa Phi Forum. Retrieved January 17, 2013 from the Ashford…
The ancient Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times" has perhaps never been more relevant. As the 1990s draw to a close and the new millennium fast approaches, life is phenomenally interesting--and demanding. Professionals who are responsible for workplace learning and performance improvement are squarely in the center of the swirl of exciting possibilities--and requirements--that are emerging.…
Have you ever sat and wonder if college is anything like the real world? During school, we are basically giving detailed direction, while we enter the real world our only goal is to succeed. For students who are more independent, this could be an enormous relief. For those who are still getting their footing in the real world, this may be a challenge. Although there are many similarities at which you can apply into your career. Those similarities include Engagement in classroom discussions, completion of assignments and work duties, attendance and punctuality for school and work, and teamwork in the classroom and in the work place.…
We are presenting two alternatives for carrying out the project in a shorter time frame, like working overtime or hiring extra resources. We have mixed the two alternatives so that the tasks that are quality sensitive/critical will be crashed by subcontracting additional resources to avoid employee fatigue that can effect the quality of the work, while the tasks that are indivisible or have a learning curve that need to be done by one resource will be crashed by overtime work.…
Idiosyncratic deals (Ideals) are job design as a process in which employees and individual managers jointly negotiate the types of tasks employees complete at work. I-deals serve the interests of both employers and employees. Personalized work arrangements of a nonstandard nature that employees and their employers negotiate for mutual benefit. Even though i-deals can be an effective tool for employers to motivate individual workers (i-dealers), they always have a risk to demotivate coworkers by raising the problems of legitimacy and injustice due to differential treatment (Hornung, Rousseau & Glaser, 2008). The relationship between idiosyncratic deals and effective organizational commitment was stronger for those managers who had low core self-evaluations.…
"I am sitting by the Window in th is Atrocious Nursery." THE YELLO\N \\TALL-PAPER. By Cltarlotte Perkins Stetson. T is very seldom that mere ordi nary P""ople like John and myself secure ancestral hall s for the summer. A colonial man sion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic…
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The importance of my scheme of work is to design it to make the teaching of my subject more manageable over a period of time. There is no set method for developing a scheme of work as people adapt it to their own way of teaching, but what must be agreed is the importance of accurate schemes to guide subject delivery within FE.…