What Makes a Good Manager? I have had a total of 6 managers over the course of 21 years. By now I have a very solid idea of which qualities a good manager should possess. I have run from one extreme to the other‚ my worst manager was fired for stealing‚ and my best manager has been promoted 4 times since I last worked there‚ and is an outstanding asset to the company. The basic understanding that a manager needs to have is an objective view. This is extremely difficult to do as emotions
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s article‚ “SuperFreakonomics: What Should You Worry About?” is a piece that explains what we as humans worry about that aren’t as big of a deal as we think. Levitt and Dubner claim that we are terrible at assessing risk and that we focus more on things like shark attacks and lightning strikes versus things like heart disease which has a more likely chance of doing harm to us. Economics is a key term that they use to explain how we can assess the risks that
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believe that you can tell a lot about a person by observing what they wear. Is this true? A man in a nice pressed three-piece suit‚ carrying an expensive briefcase is obviously a businessman‚ right? A woman wearing a long ruffled colorful dress‚ with many jewelry pieces around her neck and wrists and colorful beads braided onto her hair must be a hippy or a gypsy‚ right? It is easy to label people based on how they dressed‚ sometimes too easy. Let’s face it; the first thing you do to a person
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WHAT MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW? The directors of a company have a legal responsibility to ensure weather the company keeps appropriate accounting records which enable them to report the financial position of the business to investors‚ regulators and tax authorities. In an organization financial acumen is a skill that will support any manager in their career. The skill is not about knowing the intricacies of transaction recording or the details of financial reporting; it is about having the ability
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Modesty vs. Immodesty Clothing for Girls By: Nina H. Have you ever wondered about what other people think about the way you dress and your personality? Do you know that a guy’s first impression of a girl comes from the way she dresses? In today’s generation‚ dressing immodestly is being seen by many people as ‘normal’. But‚ how should teenage girls dress these days? This research paper attempts to find out the appropriate ways girls should dress and the reasons behind the way they dress
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To think like a nurse entails a large variety of things which we as students are yet to be competent in. We must practice in a safe manner according to the standards and laws of the nursing profession and health systems. As a nurse we should always respect the range of cultures‚ ethnicity‚ values and beliefs of the vast variety of everyone who we encounter and care for throughout our careers. We are to treat each and every one of them with dignity at all times. We must always treat any personal
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What Motivates You! There was a time where employees were known as just another input into the production of goods and services. What possibly changed the way of thinking about employees was research‚ referred to as the Hawthorne Studies‚ conducted by Elton Mayo. This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson‚ 1973). Why is motivation so important in the work force and what should be done? Motivated employees
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WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD MANAGER? The first words that come to mind when thinking about management are “plan‚ organize‚ coordinate and control” (Mintzberg 1989‚ p.9) as Henry Fayol first laid them down in 1916. These are the four things that a manager is supposed to do. In my opinion‚ they tend to generalize and describe vaguely a manager’s job. In spite of this fact‚ there are a number of characteristics that can be depicted from them. The qualities of a good manager should concern
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Assignment on: The bog bodies and what they tell us about the past What they tell us… clothing- fabrics‚ fashion etc. hairstyles.… physical diseases – what was around and how they treated it. Also height and physical things. Punishment and ritual killing.. how and why . day top day things… food‚ tools invented etc. In Europe and Britian‚ in areas of boggy‚ marshy soil‚ several well-preserved bodies have been found. They were prevented from decaying by the airless conditions of the bog. Due
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What You See‚ Is Not Always What You Get When you hear the word janitor‚ obviously nothing glamorous comes to mind. All we think about is scrubbing toilets or mopping floors‚ basically cleaning up after other people who most of the time show no appreciation. When asked what comes to mind when you hear the word janitor‚ some people would say someone who is poor and not well educated. Not very many people believe that a person who works as a janitor could actually like their job. Mr
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