A popular adage states: ‘hard work pays.’ Well‚ I am not writing this to dispute the wisdom of this saying. All I am saying is: smart work pays better than hard work. This is why managers in a construction firm for example gets paid astronomically higher wages than the labourers. No one will dispute the fact that labourers do heavy‚ tiring physical work in the sun and the rain. Yet they get paid low wages‚ while the management get transported from their air-conditioned homes to their air-conditioned
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Organisation 1. Social inventions of groups of people working to achieve their goals 2. Goal Accomplishment- Individual assembled to achieve goals that cannot be done by one man alone 3. Group Effort-- By combining as a team‚ they can thus work efficiently to achieve goals What is Organizational Behavior? Attitudes and behaviors of individual and group in organizations. Involves systematic study of these attitudes and behaviors‚ and should be of interest to all students of management
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I. Introduction Henry Fielding once said‚ ¡§Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil¡¨. Money presents in so many aspects of life. It seems that almost everything can be bought‚ with the high value attached to money. People are very addicted to money because of the idea that if you have money‚ you have the success‚ popularity‚ power and acceptance. But‚ there is always danger in losing values such as love for sports or being a hardworking person. A good example is the current trend
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Michelangelo Buonarroti once said‚ “if people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery‚ it would not seem so wonderful at all.” The controversial debate between hard work and talent has yet to come to an answer. In the present-day‚ there are a lot of famous or popular people that are known for their talent. Just because they have talent‚ does that mean that they didn’t work very hard to get to that point? The key to success is being a hard worker instead of only having natural born talent
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DO HAPPY WORKERS WORK HARDER? The effect of job satisfaction on work performance Michael Argyle In: Ruut Veenhoven (ed)‚ (1989) How harmfull is happiness? Consequences of enjoying life or not‚ Universitaire Pers Rotterdam‚ The Netherlands‚ ISBN nr. 90 257 22809 Summary Opinions about the consequences of happiness on work differ. There is no research on the effects of life-satisfaction on productivity but there is a lot of research on the link between job satisfaction and work performance. This
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given by fate‚ are more successful. He implicates that opportunity‚ hard work‚ birthdate‚ 10‚000 hours rule‚ and the background of the person are essential factors when being an outlier. Out of these aspects‚ working hard would have to be the one factor that surpasses the rest in this scenario. Malcolm Gladwell emphasizes many characteristics on what being an outlier is. The most important is hard work‚ “... [for] if you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you
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Running head: WHAT MOTIVATES EMPLOYEES? What Motivates Employees: Personal Drive or Incentives? Abstract This essay analyzes the similarities and differences between incentives and motivation. Various incentive programs are discussed such as employee stock ownership programs‚ profit-sharing‚ gain sharing‚ and the various types of recognition. We conclude with a focus on the guidelines of a reward program‚ and overall employee morale. Much effort
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Hard Work Pays Off Graduation day! As I stand in line waiting for my name to be called I look around the enormous gymnasium full of happy families taking pictures and all my fellow classmates smiling and clapping. While I look around I notice that I am shaking in my maroon gown‚ and I feel a trickle of sweat coming down my face. As I start to get closer to the stage my heart starts to race and I can’t stop myself from smiling. Finally I walk onto the tall‚ long stage and hear my whole name being
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Hard Work‚ Luck and Dedication Malcolm Gladwell‚ a writer for the magazine New Yorker‚ once stated an important point. “It isn’t sheer talent that distinguishes most super achievers…” he said. He also went on to say ‚ “The Beatles rocked‚ but they might never have achieved stardom if they hadn’t lucked into a Hamburg gig that forced them to play together for hundreds of hours a month…” Mr. Gladwell is right in my mind in the sense that some people do not reach the success they could achieve‚ simply
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One thing that sets me apart from the other candidates applying to the University of California is my hard work. I have always been smaller than other kids my age. At 15 years old I was 4’ 10’’ and looked like I was eleven years old. Although this was an advantage at the airport‚ when I would begin to take off my shoes and the TSA Officer would look at me and say‚ “Don’t worry twelve and under can keep their shoes on.” I was often discredited for my size. Especially because I played volleyball‚ a
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