Essays on Punctuality

Professionalism, defined in simple terms is the level of brilliance which is expected by a professional (WebFinance, 2016). This brilliance is the actually brilliance of performance and being able to perform a task so flawlessly that it fulfills the expectations of clients and satisfies them at the same time (WebFinance, 2016). Professionalism is also depicted by the conduct, the aims and the individuality of a professional who is working at a recognized and dignified place. There are several areas where professionalism is expected by clients and other people when a person is a part of a large enterprise or ...

Having worked in a leadership position for fifteen years, I have a strong feeling that I still have a long journey to go. Currently, I am working as a branch manager at Sydney Airport, the position I have been holding for the past six months. The experience I have had working alongside people of different backgrounds has made me appreciate being a leader.

Who Do I Want To Be As A Leader In The Workplace?

A good leader is born and not made. According to Fransen (152), it takes a person passion and dedication to make it in the field of leadership. Most leaders fail to be successful because they fail ...

Understanding the customs and ways of thinking of other cultures has a great importance in business negotiations. Knowing how to behave, to make a good impression and build a relationship of trust will help to simplify communication and create a solid base for cooperation. Various online resources that contain the basic information about the cultures of different countries can greatly assist in achieving this purpose. But it is crucial to remember that each country has its own, unique culture, which is reflected in the way the people of the country to do business. In contrast to Australians, Indians do ...

Summary of the case

Demirelli suffers from a rare bone disease which has confined him to a wheelchair. He was hired by Convergys to respond to the client’s calls. However, due to his condition, he found the accommodation at Convergys difficult. He lived twenty to twenty-five distances from Convergys and hence had to leave home at least an hour before the reporting time to ensure he arrives on time. The parking lot was a problem. He could not find a spacious area to park his car and also, in the office, he was forced to move all around the office in search ...

BUSINESS CULTURE REFLECTION

Introduction International business is becoming more and more diverse and mobility is an essential characteristic of not only business organizations, but social environment, where individuals become more exposed to different cultures in their professional and personal lives. Globalization and technology ay significant role in building this diversity in all aspects of the businesses and companies recognize that in order to be successful in their operations, they should be able to differentiate and personalise their approach to doing business, based on the diversity of the regions and countries, where they establish themselves (Davies, 2006). With the above in mind, academic ...

Analysis of competitive business environment facilitates proper decision making as well as planning for running an airline company. Deregulations in the airline industry are compelling airline companies to ensure decision making in order to meet expectations and demand of emerging markets. There are several factors that provide input to decision making and planning, and also pave the way to profitability and success of an airline company. These factors are providing high quality service, using up-to-date and cost effective aircrafts, using latest technologies that include informational and electronic technologies, ensuring cooperative, friendly, and professional attitude and face to the customers. ...

Personal Mastery

Personal Mastery Personal Mastery Since the dawn of our civilization, people have been trying to study the world around them. Within the ages passing, human nature has proved to be inquisitive and curious. Therefore, eagerness to learn and find out something new is considered to be a mandatory feature of a successful person. In fact, this belief took the shape of the special managerial discipline, which is personal mastery. Personal mastery is a name for the process of getting mature in the field of organizational behavior. Personal mastery identifies the possibility of person’s growth and evolution. Step by ...

Abstract

India has one of the most different and distinct cultures in the world. The country is home of many cultures, ethnicities, religions, languages, food, and much more. The paper provides the cultural briefing of India on the basis of certain factors. Several factors related to India has been analysed on the basis of its location, size and population and understanding its position in the world. The history of India have been analysed from its creation and the factors that led to the formation of India. Similarly, the economic and political system of India has been be analysed and its ...

2016-04-27

Features of Chosen Job 3 My Employability and Volunteering Ability 6 Skills Analysis 8 Introduction I’ve chosen such job as a health care assistant (HCA). It is also known as a support worker, nursing assistant or nursing auxiliaries. This position is quite popular with the majority of hospitals. They can also work in the patient’s own homes. This position is extremely serious, because it can play an important role in the patient’s health, his overall mood and recovering process. The main goal of this paper is to understand the main functions of the health care assistant ...

Defensiveness in communication hinders positive group climate and is an obstacle to group cohesiveness. The previously existing norms within the group were friendly, casual and honest interactions. Decisions were made through open debates in which all members participated by asking and answering questions, and although a consensus was not always achievable, open discussions were welcomed. The group meetings were previously held with an open, flexible, and casual structure that was not strict on punctuality or formalities. The group norms in the case study were violated when George and Margaret used formal and rigid communication structures within the group. Their ...

Rationale for choosing Malaysia

Malaysia, apart from being a multi-cultural and pluralistic country, is a great tourism destination. The capital, Kuala Lumpur, is where every other tourist dreams of visiting. Thus, the main reason for choosing Malaysia for this study was due to personal reasons when visiting the country. As part of the major plan, visiting Malaysia during holiday and especially during honeymoon is the basis of this selection. Apart from the excitement of interacting with a mixture of cultures and religions, there will be a lot of learning during the tour. Hence, before visiting the country, it is crucial to conduct a ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator of this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Nutrition Content Application of Knowledge

SAT While I haven’t taken many classes in Human Nutrition (HNF classes), I have performed incredibly well in the ones that I have taken. My cumulative GPA in HNF 150 (Introduction to Human Nutrition) and HNF 444 (Business of Nutrition Services) was a 3.5, indicating superior understanding and application of the practices discussed within those classes. I believe that the introductory course (HNF 150) was particularly valuable, because it framed the context of my studies for me. It provided a setting for all further study in this field, as well as providing specific information regarding the basics of ...

Introduction

The different countries of the world operate in varying time zones. As a result, effective communication across borders tends to become slightly complicated due to the differences in time as well as the varying perceptions of the citizens of different countries. It has been well established that the developed countries and their citizens usually perceive time very precisely. On the other hand, individuals in developing countries or underdeveloped countries tend to struggle with maintaining punctuality and effective time management.

Chronemics and India

Chronemics is the study of how individuals perceive and utilize time. Different countries and their culture influence the time perception ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Employability Skills in Health and Social Care

Introduction For many people, having a life-long career is no longer the norms. There are several individuals who had jobs across different organizations and various employers throughout their professional life. Although flexibility in the working pattern is essential in ensuring a continuous employment, it is also imperative that individuals possesses the employability skills in order to get, keep, and become succesful in the chosen career. In the field of health and social care, assuming the job of a Family Support Worker requires specific employability skills in performing satisfactory work. The discussion highlights the responsibilties and performance needed to become ...

Business culture and etiquette play a big role in determining the business climate of a country. How foreigners such as expats are treated by the hosts will affect their efficiency and willingness to extend their services in a country. This is a paper on the business and cultural etiquettes in Chile and Saudi Arabia.

Business interactions with the Chilean locals will be determined and influenced by their conversation skills. Chileans by nature are poor listeners with very short spans of concentration. It will be challenging to hold an intellectual conversation with someone ...

Going by the details of the case, I do not think that the employers in this case made a best effort to reasonably accommodate the employee. It is seen that the worker had made all efforts to avoid getting late, but his medical condition would not allow it. However, despite his request for a simple 15-minute extension, the employer turned it down (Emerson 624). This was so despite the employer’s full knowledge that the employee was disabled and had difficulties with parking and finding a workstation due to the setting of the workplace. It is also noteworthy that the worker did ...

“Are You Popular?” (1947)

The short “Are You Popular?”, like many Coronet shorts in the Prelinger Archives, manages to find ways to emphasize and encourage postwar conformist norms in the last 1940s to play up the need to belong and behave. The film encourages popularity as a virtue, and tells people why being popular is important, asking: “How does a person get to be popular with lots of people, and have a few close friends too?” First, physical appearance is a huge factor; Caroline is attractive and safe, and the students have “heard no scandal about her”. This means ...

Question 1

Explain the factors used to determine employee production standards. Why are realistic performance standards essential for employee motivation, morale, and productivity?

Employees’ productivity can be determined by a thorough analysis of their punctuality and timeliness in carrying out any tasks assigned to them. Timeliness is shows the ability of the employee to work effectively with set deadlines. Punctuality in arriving at work, delivering on duties and giving response to senior management can help measure the production standards of an employee. The management should also use the accuracy of the employee in delivering goods and services. Some employees are fast in ...

Undergraduate Dissertation

Consumer Decision Making, in Relation to Brand Image in Today’s Airline Industry Presented for (Business management) This dissertation is entirely the original work of student registration number 1210025. Where material is obtained from published or unpublished works, this has been fully acknowledged by citation

Abstract

Marketing research studies reveal that companies have gone beyond offering functional attributes of a product when considering their competitive advantages in the market. Rather, companies are developing corporate brands that are associated with their products and services in the marketplace. The rationale is that companies can create special image that consumers can associate ...

Performance appraisal

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The three points of concern in the current evaluation form is how personal characteristics and relation with other co-workers was manipulated so as to be seen as a weakness on the side of the engineer. Another point of concern is the tentative decision where friendliness was considered in the evaluation to show the engineer is unfriendly and that he cannot associate and socialize well with other workers in the company (Werther & Keith, 2000). The attitude of was another point of concern in the evaluation form. It was rated to suggest that the engineer is not attentive when the ...

What is corporate culture?

Culture is nothing but a pattern of behavior of human beings that includes their thought, action and speech. This mostly depends on an individual’s capacity to learn and transmit knowledge to the coming generations. Similarly, culture of an organization can be broadly described as its personality or character or simply, how things are normally done in the organization. Corporate culture indeed guides how the employees of an organization feel and think on working for the organization. Corporate culture also encompasses certain basic elements such as core values, ethics and beliefs that define an organization (Hansen, n.d.). In business, there ...

Introduction

The practice of acknowledging, understanding, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people as regards ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental prowess, race and religion is referred as diversity (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario with the driving forces of globalization like the advent of technologies, communication, internet, transportation and transnational companies having diminished boundaries, the work place environment has grown extremely diverse with people of various cultures, backgrounds and beliefs fraternizing with each other every day on account of work and business. The demography in USA has gone through a drastic ...

Performance-feedback is very important, whether it is at school or at workplace. Working for a big oil and gas company, it was that time of the year when the company’s HR would give a detailed feedback to the employees about their last one year’s performance and contribution to the company. This information and feedback was very important because it would determine the future of any employee in the organisation. It was more than a year since I had joined the company and it was my first job. Naturally, I was pretty tense about the feedback. On 02-January-2014, the company’s ...

- The Importance of being at the Appropriate Place at the Correct Time Great men like George Washington have been regarded as a man of punctuality. What with punctuality that makes them give a high regard. Filipinos have been known for a mimicker called Filipino Time which means if a person wants to meat at one in the afternoon, that person will arrive at one fifteen. Different cultures and individuals may have different regard on the importance of being on the appropriate place at the correct time. However, there are several reasons why being on the appropriate place at the correct time ...

Herman’s obstacles and habits

Many obstacles contribute the lateness of Herman to his work station. As seen from the map, his home is approximately four miles from the Dewey, Cheetum and Howe Accountants. Along the way, Herman experiences a lot of obstacles that make him late for work. In addition, he has an unacceptable behavior that also makes him get to work late. Punctuality in the workplace is an issue that needs no debate because every worker must ensure they report to their duty stations on time. Failure to arrive at workplace on time irrespective of the reason for lateness introduces an aspect of ...

The person who makes you feels something, or interests you in some way

Academic excellence of John is the first and foremost reason he is always appreciated by both the teachers and students alike. His passion and efforts in achieving the highest grades attracted me to become his best friend and I try my best to be just like him. John is a pleasant, kind, and helpful person who can become friendly and highly interesting to everyone. John is also very athletic and good in sports. He is currently the captain of our volleyball team, a member of our football team and a standby for the track team. Given his academic and athletic talents, it ...

ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS

Introduction The world is made up of a single supra system that contains millions of systems and subsystems. A system is a set of interdependent or interacting components that form an integrated whole. In addition, organization system refers to the structure adopted by the organization to organize and assign responsibilities to employees (Henningfeld, 2009). Therefore, this analysis focuses on the complexity of health care organizations and description of the health care organization in terms of organization’s culture, culture of learning, predominant leadership style, leadership assessment and organization’s readiness for change. Health care organizations form a complex system in ...

Very few countries matter to each other as Mexico and the United States yet, they do understand each other so weakly. They are very close to each other but they seem so distant in many things they do. The two countries have grown increasingly reliant on one another over the past years. There have been foreign relations between Mexico and United States for a very long time. In addition, they share a maritime and land border in North America (Dominguez and Fernandez de Castro, 2009). The two nations have accomplished several treaties multilaterally for example NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement), ...

Introduction

The study of behavior and the behavioral change is an important area of interest in the contemporary psychology. The paper is based upon the experience of bringing self-directed positive change in my procrastinative behavior. The experience relevant to the paper is generated and studies on the basis of the Stages of Change Model (Demetriou & Raftopoulos, 2000, pp.23). The behavior can be modified in a process comprised of five steps. At the Precontemplation stage, one may or may not be aware of his/her problem. In transitioning to the Contemplation stage, one thinks about the behavioral problem and decided to change it. ...

Communication Barriers

Introduction Communication involves a sender transmitting information or an idea to the receiver. Communication helps better understand a person and enable to resolve disputes that may arise. It is important for information to be simple for it to be effective. The receiver must understand the information that is being delivered to eliminate misunderstanding, which most of the time cause frustration and misunderstanding. Excellent interpersonal communication skills create a productive work environment because one can be able to connect better with the work makes.

There are many barriers to effective communication. Barrier may occur at different stages in the process of information ...

Business Report

The report on Virgin Trains reviews the company’s core business segments and its future competitive advantage as a leader in UK rail transport franchise. A major private partner and investor in Britain’s rail transport infrastructure, the Virgin Group and its wholly owned subsidiary Virgin Trains in partnership with the UK Government, regional and municipal transport oversight and its stakeholder entity, Stagecoach (49%) controls much of the nation’s commercial rail franchise, including scheduled delivery of services to North Wales and Scotland. The foregoing Porter’s competitive analysis of Virgin Trains’ offers insights in consumer and investor confidence ...

Introduction

Quality of services and products determines whether an organization will be successful or not. Consumers essentially expect the business organizations to maintain high quality level and at the same time consider it as an imperative aspect of satisfaction. For that reason, quality management becomes very crucial as far as any business organization is concerned. This quality management can in real sense be accomplished through a variety of quality control techniques. Quality control and quality assurance are objective oriented and can actually be achieved by statistical quality control. As a result, quality control refers to a process through which the entries review ...

Introduction

Homeschooling – educating your kids yourself at home, rather than sending them to either public or private school – is more widespread than you might think. According to Ray (2011), the number of children being educated in this way in the U.S. has increased in the last three decades; and by 2010 had reached over two million. But is homeschooling a good thing, especially for the children, who have just the “one shot” at getting an education? Are their parents really helping them by teaching the kids themselves, or would the children obtain greater benefits from being part of the schools ...

Over the years, various scientists have studied the issue of mental models constructed due to perceptions, imagination, and the experiences of an individual. Mental models can be referred to as images and assumptions constructed in people’s minds based on their worlds (Schneider 2001). These mental models consist of images about us, about others, and about various aspects of the world (George 1991). Human perception is usually defined as a mixture of various life experiences and the people’s interpretation of what they perceive (McShane and Travaglione 2003). The following paper describes how my mental models, about my world, can ...

Introduction:

I strongly believe that far-sightedness is a common household name to every ambitious mind as far as achievement of long-term educational goals in life is concerned. This issue is largely based on some paramount facts which can impossibly be de-linked from it; careful planning, accurate timing, straight thinking, firmness in enforcement of execution of plans and hard studying, personal grooming, punctuality, efficiency, discipline and self restrain, honesty, integrity, independency, diligence and professionalism, are some of the virtual morals receding the achievement of long-term educational goal achievements, just to mention a few. I have always dreamt of becoming a banker in financially ...