Essays on Directing

Different situations demand different types of leadership. The two most widely used leadership styles include directing leadership and supporting leadership. Directing leadership refers to a leading style in which leader assigns tasks to all the group members or followers. Furthermore, the leader shows them the direction and informs them what they need to achieve at the end (Browning, 2007). The directive way of leadership refers to one-way communication. The leader delegate task gives directions and conveys his messages throughout the period from starting the task until the time of achieving the desired goals. A leader communicates to his followers ...

A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

The best way to motivate patients to make positive lifestyle changes is to first see things from the perspectives of the patients. Patients, just like doctors or health practitioners, differ according to personalities, abilities, preferences, and lifestyles. As such, motivating patients to make positive lifestyle changes require spending “less time directing patients what to do and spend more time asking and listening are likelier to motivate patients to change health-related behaviors” (Rollnick, et al., 2005; cited in American Medical Association, 2013, p. 1). Likewise, there are tendencies for medical practitioner to provide patients with negative messages that would entice ...

Throughout the history of the film industry, the cinematography was aimed at expanding and solidifying the nature of storytelling. The development of cinematography influenced the development of cinema as a whole, while cinematography itself was impacted by the expanding methods of storytelling. Cinematography also makes you involved in the art of expressing your thoughts and worldview to many people and allows convincing and sharing your opinion with many at the same time. In a movie, you have an opportunity to employ your imagination and explain things that can be hard to explain. For some people, cinema provides a platform ...

I have been given the task and privilege of directing the film Macbeth, (Macbeth) and the essay will examine many aspects of the play including the main characters, personalities, themes as well as the important incidents in the film and the historical background. I have chosen Lady Macbeth as the main character for discussion. The 2010 film, saw Macbeth as Stalin and the weird sisters or witches were portrayed as nurses and then cooks. It was filmed in an abbey which retained some of the original scenes of Shakespeare’s play. The 2010 film starred Patrick Steward as Macbeth ...

Introduction

While distributed organizational form of control remains a highly engaged and espoused system of command due to the ability of the approach to offer a dynamic managerial initiative, spontaneity, creativity, and delegation, it proves to pose risks structurally, impede rewards and risk possible fragmentation. This primary focus of the discussion is to argue against the use of distributed organizational structure while utilizing a test case that involves the use of distributed organization in controlling, managing, and operating an air charter investment.

Discussion

Air charter calls for a sophisticated and highly monitored system of managing, controlling and directing. The tentative distributed ...

It is used in the knowledge-based decisions. It provides training to the team members in the organization.

It is used in the yield meeting, which indicates that the individuals must have the same vision.

It is used in the pricing and inventory management and provides the detailed information about the inventory. Effective forecasting reduces inventories The effective estimation helps the organizations to reduce the inventory and the organizations can become effective in the market. If a company becomes efficient in the forecasting so that the company can easily estimate the future needs of the market and produce the inventory according to the desire of the market (Olszewska & Piwoni-Krzeszowska, 2014).

Contract manufacturer in a supply chain

The contract manufacturers have a greater role ...

Management Practices

Management Practices

Introduction

Management is an important activity for logistics firms such as JKL Logistics Company, considering that the scope of business logistics is very broad. According to Blooma, Genakosb, Sadunc and Van Reenend (2011), the management practices are considered as being contingent to any business situation in raising efficiency and setting the right track to be pursued by the business. In recent years, innovative management practices have emerged in the logistics business domain with the focus being on a two-sided relationship between customers and suppliers. In regard to JKL’s logistics management principle, management concepts have focused on the ...

Executive Summary

In general, the diplomas mentioned in the paper below have brought revolutionary changes to my personality and mind-set. They have broadened my vision and changed my attitude towards certain concepts in certain ways (that I have explained in the later parts of the assignment). I feel to have some inborn qualities relevant to the subjects that I took up and these courses have helped me polish my skills and expertise, and update my knowledge. As the course progressed, I could feel my development as a learner stage by stage. My teachers, supervisors, and group fellows have come in as ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care Introduction Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

Nowadays, almost every living in a modern world human understands the vitality of proper management skill and realizes the necessity of leader qualities to be present in any important process. While the educating institutions keep teaching future managers, leadership classes are more rare to be known. Despite of the worlds’ awareness that managing and leading are two different things, somehow, there are the times one of these functions can get underestimated. First of all, in order to start the two concept’s differentiation, it is important to understand the meaning of the terms. On one hand, management “comprises directing ...

Introduction

Traditionally, research about leadership has laid more emphasis on the traits of a good leader rather than the leadership approach adopted in an organization. It is vital to note that a leader can have all the right characteristics to lead an organization, but the leadership used in the organization could limit their actions. For organizations to be successful, it is vital that the leader or managers be in agreement with the follower/ employees. The agreement between managers and staff is important in creating a conducive work environment with little conflicts and at the same time enhance the implementation of ...

Traits of effective leadership

Leaders are responsible for the management, organization, and control of their subjects. Besides, leaders are capable of influencing others towards achieving a common goal. Effective leadership requires traits such as transparency and honesty. It is characterized by doing things correctly without hiding anything from fellow workmates. Transparency is linked closely to integrity (Leithwood et. al, 2008). It implies that leaders have to trust their teams with their ideas, identify their strengths, capitalize on them and share tasks between various departments in the organization. Communication skills are essential to ensure that leaders communicate efficiently with their teams. It can be ...

Emma Williams’s Case

Arbitration is a formal process for determining a grievance between parties in a conflict. A labor arbitration process involves an employment-related dispute between an employer and employee. The authority of an arbitral award comes from the binding arbitral clause in a contract of employment or the authority given by the parties through the appointment (Walras, 2013). An arbitrator has quasi-judicial powers to investigate, listen to the grievances of the parties and provide a decision, which is binding on all parties involved in dispute. However, arbitration must be launched on time to have a force of law. The dispute in ...

Literature Review

Abstract Nowadays attracting and retaining professional and skilled staff has become a challenge for many companies. Many organizations experience significant turnover that adds complications to their business activity. Providing employees with the rewards of different kinds helps companies to deal with this problem, assists with retaining talent, and reduces expenses for hiring. The rewards offered by the organizations can be of different kinds and serve various goals. Rewards can be financial and non-financial, extrinsic and intrinsic. Management of these rewards differs from company to company and is usually designed to serve the certain goals of the organizations. One more ...

The history of film, much like any other industry throughout time, has largely been male-dominated, with the vast majority of opportunities and accolades going to male filmmakers. However, it is important to note the influence of women in the film industry, and the sorely underappreciated role they have throughout the history of cinema. When tracking women directors through the 100+ years film has existed, their impacts and struggles has ebbed and flowed in surprising ways. From the silent film era’s breadth of opportunities to modern filmmaking’s slow but steady infiltration of women directors today, female filmmakers have ...

Management Practices

Management Practices

Introduction

Henri Fayol is well-known for the five management functions he identified like planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling (Golden Pryor & Taneja, 2010). These factors are important to practice to achieve the key processes of management, including planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling organizational activities (Grebner & Mattingly, 2016). According to DuBrin (2011) the managers perform the managerial functions in order to achieve goals like managing and leading employees and retaining key employees, etc. McDonald’s is the organization for which I worked also practice the earlier described management functions.

Planning is one of the key managerial activities of ...

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Part One The educational establishment has a traditional vision of education and leadership, thus, the vision towards students and their needs is quite specific. The entire framework is quite standard, as the students are perceived only as individuals that have to learn what the teachers tell them. It is possible to claim that the learning process is one-dimensional and it requires revisiting especially in terms of communication and articulation of clear goals. The educational system has to broaden their thinking ability and allow education to be specific to each individual student. We are accommodating students from diverse backgrounds and ...

Ang Lee is director of wide range of films, and each of them provokes controversy and interest among the audience and critiques. In every taken film the sequences are combined in a unique narrative with its questions and much less answers. Lee is a representative of so called independent genre, meanwhile it should be noted that his films could hardly be titled by any kind of clichés (Siraganian 1). Nevertheless, having in mind the alternative, not common point of view and the craft of directing, all his films are definitely independent. The core essence of Ang’s style ...

Visio Summary

Visio Summary

Figure 1: Correlating Network Diagram (Jakobson et al., 2007)

FLOW CHART FOR R R DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY:

Figure 2: Supply Chain Flow Chart (Angerhofer & Angelides, 2000)

SUMMARY:

Flowcharting involves invaluable equipment that assists in reviewing as well as examining an overall supply chain sequences. Figure 2 presents a flow chart. In a basic form rectangle, boxes are often utilized in representing activities, and the arrows are made to use with an aim of showing the link that involves different other activities. The flowchart objective is to illustrate the way different activities fit as one so that the knowledge concerning the process can be possibly developed. The ...

Blow Up is a 1966 British-Italian film by Michelangelo Antonioni that tells the story about a London photographer who believes that he accidentally captured a murder on his film. The story in itself covers a day in the life of Thomas- the photographer whose lateness in taking some scheduled photos of different people leads him to having an adventurous but hectic day. The significant event that day is how he accidentally captured a murder scene as he photographed two lovers at a park which brings about Mise en scene to create plot and themes. Antonioni makes extensive use of ...

As the spring commencement season winds down, many recent graduates feel trepidation about leaving the academic and purposeful comfort zone. Exiting the high school or college environment implies facing relentless pressure from parents, educators and society to remain on a linear path that leads to a university degree, graduate school, or the workforce. For this reason, young adults feel obligated to conform to a system in which they express having no active voice or personal control. Often, they feel more flummoxed and adrift than when they started academia with such promise. Therefore, it is not surprising that defiance between ...

A manager is an individual tasked with the duties of planning, coordinating, and directing the work of a team or a person in an organization. The manager also monitors the work and takes corrective measures whenever necessary. A leader is a person who has the trust of the others to lead them in pursuing what they deem to be the best possible solution to specific situations or problems (Reh, 2014). John Terrill best meets the definition of a leader. First, Terrill asked the engineers why the division had such as turnover. This was to find out from the engineers ...

Solar Energy

Solar Energy Background What can be more useful for humanity if not an unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably nothing, but solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of the sun – the history of solar technology dates back to the 7th Century B.C. and continues to this day. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or other devices to light fires. From those times, we greatly progressed, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why ...

Management

2016-05-13 This paper is devoted to the research on the leadership theories. As we know, leadership can be considered as a kind of power. Mandatory condition of leadership is the possession of power in specific formal or informal institutions. Many researchers have studied leadership as a social and psychological phenomenon from different points of view, highlighting a particular aspect of it. There are many leadership theories, from which five theories are described in this paper. One of them is the great man theory. Its main traits are the following: leaders are born, when there is a need of the ...

Introduction

The report is based on the ways wherein I plan to manage my personal resources. The paper is structured into different parts each dealing with a separate consideration. Initially, there is a detailed summary of results of the self-assessment test recently undertaken by me, which is followed by the description of future aims and objectives i.e. where I expect to see myself in ten years from now. In the next section to that, I have provided the details with regard to my plan of building my personal network that will be a source of support and information for me. ...

HCPM 341

Introduction Practice management is one of the least popular jobs among medical practitioners, probably because it leans more on the field of management than in the medical practice itself (Aluise, 2012 p.142). However, done correctly, the organization will produce the profit that is needed in order to continue providing excellent healthcare services to patients. In managing the multi-specialty group of six doctors and three mid-level providers, I will employ planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, directing, and decision-making. Planning is probably the most important of these six elements because without it, there is no order. Even if there are duties and ...

Aguirre, Stroszek and Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog is a genius at directing movies. He has worked with popular actors such as Nicholas Cage and Christian Bale over the years. He is also popularly known for his unorthodox methods in film production. His friend and actor, Klaus Kinski, acted the main role in two films. The film, Stroszec, was debuted in cinemas in 1977; Aguirre was released in 1972 and Fitzcarraldo was released in 1982. The three films by explore a man’s world, how the society views romanticism, use of metaphors and the experiences of a young woman. The discussion in this essay will ...

Coordinated management of meaning (CCM) in social sciences provides an understanding of how individuals coordinate, create and manage meanings in the communication process. In general terms, it refers to how people come with rules that are used to create and interpret meanings in the communication field. These rules and policies are enmeshed in people’s conversation where meaning is coordinated on a constant basis. In the contemporary world, people constantly communicate with others, and they normally design meaning of the messages which they used in their conversations. The meanings of the messages are based on the conversational experience of ...

Description and relationship of the primary functions of management

In healthcare administration, management functions can be described to mean key duties rendered upon the organization’s management in the running of a health organization. These functions can be broadly categorized as planning, organizing, controlling and leading/directing.

Planning

Planning involves the creation of necessary steps required in deciding the future position of a health facility in a strategic manner. It is regarded as a traditional model used by managers because it offers insights into the management on problems that hinder the performance of their organizations. Again, it requires the management to foresee future internal and external socio-economic facts that are ...

There are many definitions to the term ‘medical referral system’ by a variety of authors and scholars. A referral system, according to Almalki, FitzGerald and Clark (2011) is an institutional framework that comprehensively connects a variety of entities that have different responsibilities and duties into one network. Another definition by MOH (2016) posits that a referral system in healthcare is the “process of directing or redirecting the patient to the optimal level, usually from the lower potential levels to the greatest potential ones ensuring the access into the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, by ...

Enron Corporation an American energy company was based in Houston, Texas before its decline in 2001. In the company, over twenty thousand employees were contracted in this organization. More particular, Civil Engineer were contracted in the field of Natural gas and other field operations, professionalism of these employees was in doubt that they led to bankruptcy of the whole company. The financial condition of the company was sustained through an institutionalized creatively planned financial fraud referred as the Enron Scandal. The corporation has since been a famous example of a willful corporate and corruption (Rapoport, 2004). In modern world, ...

“Macbeth” is one of the bloodiest tragedies by Shakespearean and has everything. The essay discusses the character of Lady Macbeth in the movie "Macbeth” which is a good adaptation of the play. In the movie, Lady Macbeth looks stately, elegant and poised. She speaks very softly and in a controlled manner. She is charming and completely devoted to her husband. She is shown to be innocent and victimized when she gets involved in the murder plot. The objectives the chosen character are to make sure Macbeth is king. Her obstacles are that in order to complete her ambition, she ...

Religion plays a key role in directing human behavior. It is a source of values that are important for peaceful coexistence in the society (Ferree 7). It is the foundation of morality in the society. Social morality obliges individuals to take responsibility in caring for the common good of every individual in society (Ferree 7). It is the duty of every individual to respect laws and rules put in place for an orderly existence of humanity. For a society to function well, every institution in the society should advocate for human dignity and the well-being of all individuals (Ferree ...

“Pointing and placing” is an article written by Herbert Clark, and at the same time is a chapter from a book referenced below. Basically, the paper describes two indicating tools, which are directing-to and placing-for. Both are used to point to an object, as well as make someone pay attention to that object. Clark identifies the main difference between the two tools by saying that “directing-to directs a person’s attention to the object whereas placing-for places the object for a person's attention” (262). He claims that both are essential elements in communication between people, and ...

Solar Energy

What can be more useful for humanity if not unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably, nothing, but the solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of Sun – history of solar technology comes from the 7th Century B.C. to nowadays. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or some other devices to light fires. From those times, we went far away, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why do we should develop solar power technologies? ...

Slide 1

Positives Makes use of a graph to represent information Labels each part of the graph, which makes it easier to understand the message being portrayed. Negatives The information is not clear. Rather, it is blurred Inappropriate titling; some text is written on top of the other, which makes visibility as issue Slide 2 Positives

Uses graphics and thus elicits a greater understanding of the underlying message

Explains each graphic in a concise manner Appropriate use of color schemes Good titling; it is precise and more directing Negatives

Slide 3

Positives

Good readability attributes

Negatives

Excessive detailed; cannot differentiated from a speech or an essay

Undesirable use of graphics Has an inappropriate title. The title has been structured as a question, which should not be the case ...

Carlo Scarpa was a prominent Italian architect previously active during the early twentieth century and one of the pioneers of modernism in architectural design. He was born in 1906 in the beautiful city of Venice, a place well-known for its old Renaissance architectures, majestic canals, and gondolas. By the time he was only two years of age, his entire family migrated to Vicenza, a county part situated on the northeastern part of the Italian peninsula. It was here that he spent much of his early childhood to teenage years; he also attended a local high school specializing in technical ...

Slide 1

The title of my presentation is “Functions of Management”. Slide 2 Management can be described as a social process that involves responsibility for effective and economic planning and regulation of a company in the fulfillment of certain purposes. It a dynamic process and consists of various activities and elements. These activities differ from operative functions such as finance, marketing, purchase, etc., but they are common to every manager regardless of his status or level. Numerous researchers have classified functions of management in a different way. According to Fayol, for example, there are four functions, but the most accepted are ...