Impressing your Boss 1. Ask what needs to be done It sounds like a no-brainer‚ but quiz your boss on what is the most important way you can spend your time and then make those tasks a priority‚ suggests Steve Langerud‚ director of professional opportunities at DePauw University. By tackling the objectives that your boss holds in high esteem‚ you’ll naturally be in a better spot to get attention and praise for your work. 2. Demonstrate your value Forget what your job description says‚ create an
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BOSS/EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP: 7 THINGS TO AVOID A big part of maintaining the Boss/Employee relationship is to never allow a boss to think you dislike your work. THAT’S NOT MY JOB You know what? Several bosses are simple souls who think your job is to do what’s asked of you. So even if you are assigned a task that is indeed‚ not your job‚ refrain from saying so. Instead‚ try to find out why your boss is assigning you this task-there may be a valid reason. If you believe that doing the
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Be Your Own Boss Virtually everyone at some point in time dreams of being their own boss‚ for many that means owning a business. That however is much easier said than done. There are many steps to starting and owning a business‚ a mistake on any of them can derail‚ postpone or kill that dream. The most important step to starting a business is to develop a viable business plan. A business plan will layout the remaining steps and help ensure fewer mistakes are made. In addition to developing
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important things companies need to succeed. Communication problems in your company can cause severe problems personally and professionally. The biggest barriers for communication problems in companies are miscommunication due to confusion‚ using insufficient or inappropriate communication tools and using poor communication techniques‚ such as poor listening skills‚ and poor body language (“Duggan”‚ 2012). It is imperative that these problems be found‚ fixed and steps be set in place to help prevent
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Identify four major ongoing stressors in your life. For each stressor‚ describe why it is a stressor for you. You need to discuss a variety of areas such as personality‚ family situation‚ lifestyle‚ self-talk‚ and/or beliefs. Stress management starts by identifying major stressors in my life. Sometimes that is the hardest part because it is hard to look on my own thoughts and feelings‚ and recognize the source of the stress‚ as well to figure out how to respond to stress in a most appropriate way
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Sonny faced many problems in his life‚ he was struggling to overcome his Heroin addiction‚ also he was kind of confused about what he wants to do in his life. However‚ he decided to skip all his struggles by leaving Harlem and joining the military. As he said "I couldn’t tell you when Mama died-but the reason I wanted to leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then‚ when I ran away‚ that’s what I was running from-really.” By leaving Harlem Sonny couldn’t overcome his struggles even when
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realities. Thus‚ the relationship with the boss affects the overall work environment and how you feel about your job. It also can be the basis for staying in a job or not. In a situation presented in Case Study 1 a newly hired administrative assistant‚ Ellen Poppin‚ is threatened by a possibility of getting involved in an informal relationship with her boss. On the one hand‚ in most workplaces friendships between supervisors and subordinates are encouraged since healthy relationships have been shown
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Mock Negotiation Problem Issues in the Mock Negotiation Problem: Being a member of the Local 5000 in this whole project I could point out numerous things that make the employees at Auto Products Corporation want things better. There seems to be issues at the Indianapolis plant concerning overtime‚ premium pay‚ and even subcontracting instead of using their own employees to do the work. What I have also gotten from this mock negotiation is that in the past‚ the union and management have been
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* Based on your study on this module of cultural theories‚ international business ethics and the practice of managing across cultures‚ and assuming the role of a business consultant specialising in cross-cultural issues‚ write a cultural briefing for the Human Resources department of a real international business. Your briefing should cover a range of cultural issues‚ including the creation of cross-cultural teams‚ training employees for expatriate assignments‚ national negotiating styles and training
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Danielle Zemko Problem or Issue Investigation and Solution HUM/111 October 29‚ 2012 Unfortunately‚ just recently my brother in-law lost his job because the company he worked for shut down‚ letting go of every employee there was. Fortunately‚ my sister was trying to get a job for the same exact company‚ but she did not get the position. This is fortunate because if she did my sister would be out of a job also. They are now struggling with only one income and are coming to the realization
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