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- 351: Criticism
- ... communication skills does one need to criticize well? Why do those who are criticized act defensively? Can one be defensive and actually hear what is being said? RECEIVING CRITICISM: Is this a great source of stress? Have the past criticisms from parents, teachers, and other made us into the person we are today? The receiver must try must try to personalize the criticism and view it as information worthy of examination ... be taken? What is the worst part of receiving criticism? (Loss of control, emotional involvement, etc.). How do we normally react? (Defensive, stop listening, cry argue, blame others, feel rejected) How can we reduce the stress? (Perhaps see criticism as just information). Do we normally ask several questions: is it “legitimate”? Does the person have a right to criticize us (neighbor, parent, and spouse, boss)? What is the intention—blame me ...
- 352: Lewis and Lewis, P.C Accounting Firm
- ... auditing team, created when the company embarks on an external auditing job and sends four or five people to the company being audited. The firm believes relationships with clients are of the utmost importance. They stress frequent contact 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 ... conflicts within the firm. Of the six new professionals that were hired last month, none of them were women. This does bring into question the diversity within the firm. Many of the issues that create stress and problems in a diverse work force simply do not exist because men and women are not working together at the same status level as in larger firms. One wonders, though, what benefits are being ...
- 353: Is it an Open Road?
- ... like is there. But he is not. Instead I see a deep, glistening purple car peacefully zooming across back roads of a wooded area. The serenity of the environment calls for me to escape the stress of the city. Then color catches my attention. Why purple? Usually the cars are red or black. But purple is the color of royalty. And of course if I were to buy this car I ... they are addressed.” (Solomon, 51) I believe this and can relate to the ad. Obviously the ad was intended to catch the attention of someone in my age range (the music), who has much daily stress (the quiet, peaceful back roads), and female (the voice and the color). This was the first car advertisement that I have noticed to be applied towards someone like me. Mostly the ads are for families ...
- 354: Total Quality Management
- ... Functional Quality Relational Quality Image Experiences Expectation Customer Perceived Quality = Customer Satisfaction Figure 1: Gronroos - Gummesson Quality Model (1987) Gronroos and Gummesson has combined their ‘Customer Perceived Quality' model and the 4 “Q” model to stress the importance of customer. The intergrated model focuses solely for the organisation to achieve customer satisfaction through improving the quality for the customers. Morup (1992) notes that “quality is the most important and effective factor ... out. TQM's success may not lie only on the quality for the customer but the quality of the organisation as a whole. The core concept is discussed below: Right First Time / Zero Defects TQM stress of the importance of zero defects and achieving the right target the first and everytime. Variances in product are not acceptable and methods such as the Statistical Process Control (SPC) is use to achieve the ...
- 355: Perfect Day For A Bananafish,
- ... war society he returns home to. Seymour Glass is a veteran of World War II, who is caught in a tangled emotional web. The horrors of the war have left him reeling from post traumatic stress disorder. Once a strong, spiritual man who thrived on innocence and tradionional Jewish values, Seymour returns to a materialistc post-war society that does not understand the emotional trauma of a veteran. He finds himself ... and express great concern for the safety of their daughter. Seymour does not have anyone he can turn to for support. Muriel is completely ignorant to the fact the Seymour is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. She is so caught up in her own image of a perfect world that she refuses to see the pain that her husband is suffering. Seymour is a spiritual man, who delights in innocence ...
- 356: Introduction to Business
- ... owners accept many benefits as well as burdens. The benefit of being your own boss and gaining greater work satisfaction is accompanied by the burden of working long hours and dealing with high amounts of stress. However, these burdens are generally a result of many occupations, regardless of whether or not you are your own boss. This is why small businesses are on the rise. There are many aspects that go ... as to motivate employees to add incentive and meaning to the work. Obviously, management is a difficult job. All of the functions that a manager must perform require dedication, intelligence, the ability to deal with stress and diverse people, and most of all, the ability to deal with and accept responsibility. Today, producers must make an effort to find out what kinds of products consumers want and to make these products ...
- 357: Mr
- ... impairment. In particular those neuropsychological tests indicative of original intelligence and educational levels (such as the vocabulary scale of the WAIS)show superior performance. At present, Senator Pinochet shows no evidence of clinical depression. Situational stress, as likely to be occasioned by trial, produces physiological responses that could accelerate the progression of vascular disease. We were told, however, that Senator Pinochet has in the past shown notable personal abilities in managing stress. We therefore do not feel able to express any useful opinion on the possible effects on his health of undergoing trial. The major episodes of damage seem to have occurred in a cluster of thromboembolic ...
- 358: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... it was with Holden. I think the major theme of this book was that Holden didn t want to mature and take on responsibilities. He didn t want to have to take on all the stress and work that an adult has to deal with daily. That is why he enjoyed children so much. It is true that they posses a purity and innocence that everyone loses but they also lead carefree, stress free, fun lives. I think that is what he truly trying to hang on to. He saw how people had to act when they became adults. They could no longer be themselves in the public ...
- 359: Mountain Bikes
- ... weakest in the middle of the tube. The advantages of steel tubes are that it is a relatively inexpensive metal. The soldering the tubes produces strong, stable connections. Steel also tolerates a great deal of stress before it starts to break down. There are two disadvantages of using a steel frame: it's weight and it's susceptibility to corrosion. The fight against rust is endless; also, a search for a ... carbon fibre, manufacturers are also using glass fibre, graphite fibre, Kevlar, and Spectra. It is important in the manufacturing process that a correct, multi-directional arrangement of the fibres is made to increase the torsion stress. Poorly made carbon-fibre tubes will fracture when exposed to heavy loads. There are only two small disadvantages a carbon-fibre frame has. One is that it costs about four or five times more than ...
- 360: Depression The Sadness Disease
- ... and its development, and on particular consequences of child rearing. (2) social influences, a broad category covering the general area of social and cultural factors, such as poverty, segregation, and sexism to name a few. Stress is another factor in depression. Stress can result from physical illness; from the inability to cope with certain life events, such as separation and loss, and from significant changes, such as marriage, and childbirth (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1993, p.3). There ...
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