Michelle Whitsitt January 4‚ 2009 Writing Assignment # 1: Interview a Business Owner Due: January 7‚ 2009 For my interview I decided to pick the owner of the company I work for. The owner’s name is J. Kent McNew and he is the owner of Eastern Petroleum Corporation. The company is a petroleum distributor of gasoline primarily through gas station outlets. Eastern Petroleum Corporation is a Maryland corporation and its corporate office is located in Annapolis‚ MD. Mr. McNew sells products in MD
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Hawthorne Introduction | | | ------------------------------------------------- 表單的頂端…. My Kinsman‚ Major Molineux” [and] “Young Goodman Brown”: both probe the individual’s complex inner life and interrelationships with society‚ warning against simplistic moral judgments and challenging pious assumptions about Puritanism and revolutionary America. Both present eruptions of what has been suppressed; and the narrator‚ who asks if the guilt-obsessed Brown had “only dreamed a wild dream of of witch-meeting”
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The motivational interviewing video provided discusses a client discussing a plan and consolidating commitment with a client. One topic related to that is envisioning. This may look like resistance‚ but it suggests not directly that the individual is thinking forward to what life would be like if they did make a change. The most common type of envisioning is for the client to see the problems with changing. Another form of envision would be positive envision. The therapist may also ask hypothetical
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The Hawthorne experiments were conducted at the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s and involved a variety of different studies of workplace behavior. From sole attention focused on environmental conditions of work in the initial illumination experiment‚ the Hawthorne studies extended to the first relay experiment to investigate effects of working environment‚ physical requirements‚ management‚ and social relations upon output. The subsequent studies
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Prentice Hall Carey A. (1967) "The Hawthorne Studies: A Radical Criticism"‚ American Sociological Review‚ Vol.32‚ No.3‚ Jun. 1967‚ p.403-416. Clark D (1999) “Hawthorne Effect” Retrieved November 20‚ 2007‚ Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/history/hawthorne.html Coutts B‚ (2003) “The Hawthorne Experiments” Retrived November 25‚ 2007‚ Retrived from http://www.hawthorne-academy.org/publication6.html Draper S.W (2006) “The Hawthorne‚ Pygmalion‚ Placebo and other effects of
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Like discussed in class‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne writes more about the guilt that comes from the sin. A lot of his stories are about the sins people did in their lives or he would even make up things that people did. His main theme that he focuses on is the theme of loneliness. When a person reads stories created by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ you can feel the loneliness of the characters. In a way I find that some of his stories are depressing because the way he makes some
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Hawthorne Experiment. Advantages: During the experiment the performance of the group has increased (Not because of improving conditions‚ but because of the communication and collaboration) Disadvantages: there were personnel changes‚ that is the workers hostile watching the situation changed for those who would like to work in such conditions (that is attended only those workers who are more willing‚ not all workers) Conclusion: This experiment showed that workers are willing to actively
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Motivational interviewing (MI) is a technique in which one becomes a helper in the intrinsic changing process and express acceptance to the clients through the use of the spirits of MI. However‚ there are times in which one may encounter MI traps or challenges (Dart‚ 2011a). According to Dart MI challenges or traps often occur when the provider persuades clients to change‚ yet the clients demonstrate no interest towards change (Dart‚ 2011a). As a result‚ the client-nurse relationship may be compromised
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1. What were the origins of the Hawthorne experiments? The Hawthorne experiments were groundbreaking studies in human relations that were conducted between 1927 and 1932 at Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in Chicago. Western Electric was the manufacturing subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Hawthorne plant was an example of advanced American industrial production. Organization of the production processes was based on the application of the scientific management
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1. The Hawthorne studies were based on the Hawthorne effect‚ which states that the employee’s work behavior might be different if a manager is watching and the employee might believe that the manager’s care about them based on the attention the employees are receiving. The studies were conducted at the Weston Electric Company. Within the studies the researchers changed many variables such as lighting‚ less hours‚ gender and added benefits such as breaks and an increase in pay. The results that were
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