Works Progress Administration

across the study, and revealed that there were two sets of factors affecting motivation and work. This led to the Two-factor Theory of motivation and job satisfaction (Herzberg, et al., 1959). The first set of factors, if present, caused happy feelings or positive attitudes. These factors, on the whole, were…

Perseverance is the actions taken in order to overcome a struggle without giving up. In order to be able to persevere, one must face an obstacle or personal struggle. To show perseverance and push through the obstacle, you will need a purpose. Why is this struggle or obstacle in life so important to overcome? What is your purpose?. Once you have a purpose you will need to find the direction to go to start your process of persevering through a struggle. The struggle that you are trying…

Answer all of the following questions, no matter which program you are applying to. Please address each question individually within your essay. • Tell us about an experience you had working as a part of a team on a collaborative project. What was your role? What did you learn from that experience? What do you feel you can contribute to a collaborative environment? o I have taken part in many collaborative projects, but the one most notable has been the production of a short film for the 48-hour…

“Do you want us over there?” What do you think of when you hear these 3 words, Panther, banner, skirts? Well heres the scenario. The Football cheerleaders had just made their way out onto the left side of field to do the run through cheer and the phrase, “Oh crap.” Suddenly popped ito every cheerleaders head when the football players started making their way to the right side of the field. The names of the boys had just started and Junior Sydney Kightlinger was the first to react. “I…

leaving the company for other work. Through listening to what their employees had to say and taking any changes put forward…

biggest take away. Contingent reward is most important to me because I can set goals for someone and if they meet those goals I can give them a set reward. This might not be other leaders’ specific style, but I find it more effective to let people work for the things they want. The reward doesn’t have to be huge and can be something as simple as time off, an award, or maybe saying “you rocked it, way to go.” If I fail to use the concept of contingent reward, my subordinate might not think…

1. When asked to work in pairs for a group project for high school exercise science class, my partner (lets call her Jen for example purposes only) and I got into a very large conflict. It was a project that dealt with knee injuries in sport, and we both had to pick an injury and discuss the causes and rehab solutions for the injury as well as construct a bone joint model for the injury (we choose knee injuries). Jen was taking this course for fun and did not have past experiences with knee…

It was just another regular day working at the Solon Feed Mill, until my friend Spencer texted me. He told me that our other friend, Matthew, had just quit his job at Nelson Electric and that they were looking for another person to work there. Spencer has been one of my best friends all throughout high school. He’s about 6’0, 190 lbs and built like a brick wall. He’s going to go play football at Loras College as a DE/LB. They were going to start a project at Kirkwood in the summer, called the…

Creating a Great Place to Work It is every manager’s dream to create the optimal place to work, one which employees work together, the business is successful and the culture maintains and follows the company’s mission and vision. But how is that accomplished? Managers need to take the time to decide what it is exactly what they want out of the business, what their end goal is and how they will get there together with their team supporting them. Leaders Bank set out to build a business model…

make sure everyone did their work but I could have just trusted my teammates which would have probably made the quality of work even high due to the amount of self empowerment they would feel from the autonomy they would be given. One way I feel my team really worked well together was we put so much more time into our interpersonal relationships than time in doing hard focused work. In our final meeting we meet for close to 3 hours and we only did 30 minutes of quite work the rest was enjoyable…