to work I was not aware of all the different types of workers. Each co-worker had a different way of doing things and a different personality. I can classify them into four categories because they are the most common‚ the lazy‚ the complainer‚ the talker‚ and the know-it-all. My first job was at Target‚ and I encountered the know-it-all that was always telling me how to do things because he had been there longer. I also met the lazy co-worker that made my work harder. My next and current job was
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work together to accomplish different objectives more efficiently and flawlessly. Thus‚ each member in a group has to have important qualities as a co-worker. Responsibility‚ cooperativeness and respect are the key qualities of a co-worker that improve the performance of the group. First of all‚ responsibility is an important quality that co-workers should have. Each member should have their own task to complete. Otherwise‚ everyone could get in trouble due to one person’s lack of responsibility
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Feidler’s Approach to Situational Analysis Fiedlers contingency model was created by Fred Fiedler‚ professor emeritus of management and organisation at the university of Washington in Seattle. Fiedler’s “A theory of Leadership Effectiveness‚” paper on this model provide a wealth of material to use when applying the model to a specific context. Fred Edward Fiedler’s contingency theory of leadership effectiveness was bases on studies of a group effectiveness‚ and concentration on the relationship
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the environment around them‚ and attendance and punctuality. With this being the situation within a work environment‚ many types of difficult co-workers can exist. As an individual that has had experiences with many types of difficult co-workers‚ I have been able to identify these difficult co-workers within my work setting and identify the type of worker I am when on the job. The
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The Fiedler Contingency Model was created in the mid-1960s by Fred Fiedler‚ a scientist who studied the personality and characteristics of leaders. The model states that there is no one best style of leadership. Instead‚ a leader’s effectiveness is based on the situation. This is the result of two factors – "leadership style" and "situational favorableness" (later called "situational control"). Fiedler created the least preferred co-worker (LPC) scale‚ where a leader is asked what traits can be
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always want to have a co-worker who has a sense of humor‚ and is conscientious. For me‚ who posses those two characteristics will be a perfect co-worker. A co-worker who has a sense of humor will help to bring you a good working environment. Working is nowadays more and more stressful to people‚ especially when the economy is going down‚ companies are going to fire a large number of employees‚ each worker has to try his/her best daily to keep his/her job. If you have a worker who is humorous‚ his/her
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Fiedler Contingency Model The contingency theory allows for predicting the characteristics of the appropriate situations for effectiveness. Three situational components determine the favourableness of situational control: 1. Leader-Member Relations‚ referring to the degree of mutual trust‚ respect and confidence between the leader and the subordinates. To build a strong team‚ there should be a great relationship among the employee‚ manager and the general manager because it is the foundation
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Preferred Stock Benita Becton XACC/291 08/23/13 Lisa Pendleton Preferred Stock Preferred stock is capital stock that has some contractual preferences over common stock. These particular stocks give stockholders a priority in distributions of earnings and assets in the event of liquidation. Dividend preferences are one of those features that make preferred stock attractive to investors. If the dividend rate on preferred stock is 5.00 per share‚ then common stockholders don’t receive their
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With Preferred stock‚ there are of a variety of features that can be added to in order to either increase its attractiveness to investors‚ or to make it easier for the issuing company to buy back. Some company uses this to gain access to cash fast and they can control their payback. Preferred stock can have a lot of features add to it but here are the four major categories they will fall into: Callable this feature gives a company the ability to buy back preferred stock on specific dates and at
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Theory of Errors and Least Squares Adjustment Huaan Fan ISBN 91-7170-200-8 Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Division of Geodesy and Geoinformatics 100 44 Stockholm Sweden August 2010 Theory of Errors and Least Squares Adjustment Huaan Fan‚ PhD Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Division of Geodesy and Geoinformatics Teknikringen 72‚ 100 44 Stockholm‚ Sweden Phone: +46 8 7907340 Fax: +46 8 7907343 E-mail: hfan@kth.se URL: http://www.infra.kth.se/impgg With 22 illustrations and 49
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