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- 2681: Primary Education & Post Plowden Legacy
- ... pointless or onerous by both sets of pupils (exam and non- exam) could be given validity by the teaching strategy employed. Pupils seemed to be more concerned with the status of the work and their personal relationship with the teacher, therefore the pupil reaction to any given task depended heavily on these two criteria. It is identified that pupil-teacher relationships are extremely important and they contain many concealed aspects which ... as secondary research support the idea that pupils work better for those teachers they actually 'like'. Whether a teacher is liked or disliked by his pupils is dependant upon many factors. For instance the teachers personal outlook - does s/he even want to be liked?, do s/he care?, are they simply interested in meeting targets? If the teacher's personal motivation is lacklustre then how are pupils to be motivated? Ideally, teachers would be able to identify the different levels of motivation among their pupils and build relationships accordingly. This, however, is not a ...
- 2682: Board Schools
- ... and 8:00 PM to report where she would be until her 11:00 PM curfew. You can't just leave to see a movie if you are tired of doing schoolwork. This loss of personal freedom often leads to severe stress. (Cookson 33) In his study of American private schools, Peter W. Cookson reports that teachers talk of “corks popping” and “freak outs”. Leonard Baird found that “Nearly half of ... hold in society. In exchange for their loss of freedom, prep students earn a right to membership in the privileged “higher group” and come to believe that they deserve certain privileges because of the high personal price they paid. The present pain for future gain thought holds true. Prep school graduates are disproportionately influential in business, banking, and law. Seventeen percent of the rare group of people who are board members ... be there. Elite boarding schools only accept on average fifteen percent of applicants. (Morgan 103) To get in an applicant must take the SSAT, write essays, submit recommendations from teachers, visit the school for a personal interview, and pay a $30.00 application fee. As can be seen, only well motivated students can manage to get in. Those that do get in tend to stimulate each other to succeed. The ...
- 2683: The Real Rules of Retirement for Women (and Men too!)
- ... retirement. And, since women live longer than men, they will need even more retirement income than men do. Because only a small percentage of older women receive pension income and most do not have significant personal savings, many women must rely on Social Security as their primary source of income. Two-thirds of women over 65 have no pension other than Social Security. The problem is that Social Security was meant ... Equity Act of 1984 (REA) has greatly improved the chances that a widow will continue receiving pension payments. The REA requires private pension plans to pay survivor benefits unless a spouse waives this protection in writing. However, problems still arise because the "spousal consent" forms that are used to waive the benefit are confusing. Without sufficient information to make an informed decision, many couples choose the larger benefit instead of the ...
- 2684: Developing An Effective Sales Training Program
- ... Hair, and Bush, pp. 7-7). In order to fully explain the differences in content of these two sales training programs, I will use research conducted by Adel I. El-Ansary, for the Journal of Personal Selling $ Sales Management, to help elaborate on the content of each program. The article focused on an examination of the impact of new and experienced salespeople’s training content, length, methods, and sources on sales ... focuses on inventory management, cost accounting, general management skills, credit/collections/deduction policies, and telephone skills. The area of interpersonal and communication Skills, which accounts for 8% of the variation in training content, focuses on personal development, interpersonal skills, selling skills, and communication skills training. The area of knowledge, which accounts for 7% of the variation, focuses on product knowledge, industry knowledge, company knowledge, and customer knowledge. Last, the area of ... an effort to help understand salespeople’s perception of the relative success of types of educational programs, Lawrence B Chonko, John F. Tanner, conducted a survey. Jr., and William A Weeks, for the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management. The survey was undertaken of subscribers to a sales publication. A total of 106 of the subscribers responded to the survey. Sales personnel were asked about their satisfaction with several aspects ...
- 2685: Being a Mortician
- ... a Mortician The word mortician brings what images to mind? The career of a mortician is surprisingly different than it is portraied in movies and books. Being a mortician is a very rewarding job both personal as well as psychological to those with the temperament, training and discipline required to do the job properly. In this paper I'll be reporting the requirements to become a mortician, also called funeral director ... Computers, History and sociology of Funeral Service, Psychology of Grief, Grief Counseling, oral and Written Communication, Funeral Service Law, Business Law, and Ethics"(IRN 11). Along with educational requirements you need to look at the personal requirements it takes to be a funeral director. You have to be on call 24-hours a day 7 days a week, death doesn't know any holidays. The people's needs come before any ... for the showing (Shipley 201). "Most important, however, are the tasks in which you guide, counsel and become involved in the needs of the bereaved and the sensitive, effective manner in which you handle their personal grief"(IRN 6). When the body has been embalmed and taken care of you need to help the family choose a casket from the display room the they wish there loved one be laid ...
- 2686: Lewis and Lewis, P.C Accounting Firm
- ... on experience, not according to standard procedure. This individual- style process replaces clearly defined tasks in the firm. However, there is no job rotation between specialties. Coordination Systems Information flows very informally and on a personal basis. While this may create problems that will be discussed later, there are many positive aspects to this arrangement; it contributes to the family-like atmosphere that is very evident to the casual observer. The ... with customers, but it is conducted at the discretion of individual responsible for the client's file, and with little or no coordination among other employees. Control System Lewis & Lewis is controlled almost exclusively by personal authority. Phil is the founder and principal partner, and is responsible for most important decisions within the firm. His control over the company is perceived as firm, and his conduct and demeanor influence all the ... employees to ensure that they are not only performing in a satisfactory fashion, but that they are happy and challenged. The new hires, therefore, seem to have more interaction with the partners, and therefore better personal relationships with them. Alternatively, the employees who have been with the firm for greater lengths of time feel slighted by Phil and Brian. They comment that the partners are never available to give help ...
- 2687: The Interview
- ... The staff became agitated to receive further information and the supervisor became less inclined to offer any. Affection Affection refers to the degree of warmth between the parties in the interview. This is completely a personal perception on my part. The supervisor appeared hostile towards two staff members in particular. I base this judgement on complete lack of eye contact and verbal bluntness with these particular staff. The supervisor was seemingly ... time). It then progressed to Level 2 as we entered further into the body of the interview. We began to discuss more intimate details of an individual's life and ideas for support were shared. Personal feelings were briefly touched upon. Both staff and supervisor were asking and answering questions of each other without offering too much information. I don't believe that this interview ever attained Level 3. Verbal & Non ... alternatives to improve on the outcome of this interview. I believe that each party should be more open to others' ideas and be aware of mental arguing with others. Each party must try to keep personal feelings out of professional settings by being aware of biases and putting them aside if possible. I also believe that honesty amongst all parties (complete and accurate information, sharing of true feelings) is vital ...
- 2688: Management and The Body Shop
- ... her own small business in Brighton England. Selling the natural secrets found throughout the world; learned from extensive travel while employed as a teacher with the U.N., she created a cottage industry of exotic personal body care products. Planning proved to be the first big obstacle to learn in the road to efficient management. Taking care of buying from around the world for her special products had plunged Anita into ... needed help with. Anita organized her financial burdens by taking on an investor Ian McGlinn, in turn giving him a 50 percent stake in the business. Furthermore she sold the name The Body Shop to personal recruits, carefully lead and controlled by her own philosophies and ideals. Anita had become an ideal example of the classic top level manager taking on the responsibility of decision, communication, and information needed to project ... environment that everyone involved in the company shares the same opinions as Anita Roddick, and tried to achieve harmony, one might say, within their own franchise of The Body Shop. Achieving this was done by personal interviews of potential franchise owners and continual monitoring of the application bureaucracy's intended to find only the right people for the job. Establishing these bureaucratic procedures meant asking questions such as: "what kind ...
- 2689: Collective Bargaining in the Workplace
- ... all workers to form an average preference that typically determines its position at the bargaining table. Through collective bargaining employees can achieve better terms because the employer cannot take advantage of the individual's differing personal circumstances and needs. As Harbinson stated, the important difference between individual and collective bargaining lies in the fact that the latter 'is strictly a relationship between organisations' and therefore an indirect regulation of the relationship ... C)A 1992, it reads as follows: (1) Any collective agreement shall be conclusively presumed not to have been intended by the parties to be a legally enforceable contract unless the agreement - (a) is in writing, and (b) contains a provision which (however expressed) states that the parties intend that the agreement shall be a legally enforceable contract (2) Any collective agreement which does satisfy these conditions in subsection (1)(a ...
- 2690: The History of Phamaceutical Compounding
- ... Making Appropriate dosage, stability of drug, stocking of drugs and solutions, inventory, purchasing Skills: Administrative Analyze data Compose letters/memorandums Input data into computer programs Maintain patient charts Negotiation Research information Skills: MachineCRT (Mainframe) Calculator Personal Computer Contact with OthersPatients/families, physicians, nurses, sales representatives.Working ConditionsExposure to chemicals Open office environment Visual concentration on computer screens Bending or reaching Lifting between 10 and 25 pounds Pharmacy is a specialised profession ... and general health care issues. If a patient's condition so warrants or the prescribed dosage unusual then a pharmacist may need to refer to the doctor or dentist. The community pharmacists is in close personal contact with the public. They also oversee stock control, stock rotation and purchasing. Records must be strictly maintained such as the Poisons Register and use is increasingly made of computer technologies to control patient records ... providing a service to people; able to work as a member of a team; accurate attention to detail; a high degree of integrity; precise work habits; independence; decision making skills; and high ethical standards. The personal qualities required for success in pharmacy depend to some extent on the branch of the profession in which it is intended to practise. Pharmacy is a multi faceted science based discipline and the entry ...
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