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People at Work.
This paper describes people working in six locations.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper describes people working in six locations: a supermarket, a "fast-food" restaurant, a newsstand, a factory, a car wash, and a pizza parlor. The author illustrates a family-owned pizza parlor, centered around a large open pizza oven, where the manger and chef arrive at work very early in the morning; the atmosphere is busy and cheerful, with waiters calling in orders to the chef, who is continually busy making pizza bases and piling on an array of toppings. In the supermarket, the employees most seen by the public are the employees who work at the register; their day is a continual routine, with one customer after another, and then stolen moments of gossip and chatting between the onslaught of products to be rung up.
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Supermarket
Fast-Food Restaurant
Newsstand
Factory
Car Wash
Pizza Parlor
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"People working in the fast-food industry by necessity have a sunny disposition and project themselves as healthy and energetic individuals. An imperative is evident cleanliness in their attire and personal hygiene, especially ensuring that their hands are perfectly clean if food is handled. While preparing fast-food dishes requires pre-determined culinary skills, employees are also attentive to maintaining a strict code of cleanliness throughout the process from preparation to delivery of end product."
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Why People Work, 2007.
A literary discussion on the concept of work.
1,276 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper compares and contrasts literary articles on how work is regarded in American society today. It explains that Richard Rodriguez offers the traditional viewpoint, a portrayal of all work as filled with the potential of ennobling persons to elevate their condition with sweat. But Henry Louis Gates Jr., it expands, claims that perspectives upon work are tainted by the legacy of racism and slavery. Manual work, however, Richard Reich and Barbara Ehrenreich would counter, is not inherently degrading. It is only because such work has been so poorly paid over the course of American history that such jobs are regarded as expendable, and wealth is seen as equal to success.
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"It is Ehrenreich's point of view that offers perhaps the most comprehensive, and the most satisfying portrait of work on a human as well as on a sociological level. Ehrenreich discusses the difficulty of living as a lower-income worker in America today. Quite often, waitresses, maids, and other people whose manual labor makes modern life possible and easy are simply ignored because people who work at more esteemed occupations assume they are better people because of what they do for a living. Because society does not value lower-paid, manual occupations, and by extension the people who work in these occupations, such often have no benefits, low pay, and are seen almost as a fitting and just punishment upon the workers for not being able to move into the ranks of the middle class."
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Guns Kill People or do People Kill People?, 2002.
A detailed discussion on the topic of gun control.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 100.95
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In this study on gun control, particularly in the United States, the writer explores both sides of the issue from a political as well as a moral standpoint. The writer works to present fair presentation for both sides and then draws it all together in the conclusion.
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"As the world moves into the future it takes with it lessons of the past. Gun control is an issue that is not black and white. Those who oppose it do so for many reasons and those who support it claim to do so for the same. Gun control is not a one shot deal either. If gun control is enacted there are many options with which the bill can be written into law and fine-tuned for the individual needs or desires of that state. There will probably come a time in which the United States Supreme Court will have to decide what the constitutional authors meant when they penned the second amendment. Until then it is a stand still with both sides taking aim at the other."
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Social Work Practice wth Lesbian Gay and Bisexual People, 2008.
An overview of social work practices in the gay world.
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 52.95
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This paper sets out to research the social work practice with lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals with specific focus on the special population in relation to the problem that the social worker faces in assisting these individuals. Two social agencies and the problems that they encounter on a daily basis in dealing with these individuals are reviewed as well as the national and legislative actions relative to the problems.
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Introduction
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Standards
Factors Identified by other Professionals
Social Workers Support LSB Issues in Legislation
Center for Workforce Studies
Summary and Conclusion
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"The work of Appleby and Anastas entitled: 'Not Just a Passing Phase: Social Work with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People" relates that a range of everyday problems for gay, lesbian and bisexual people exists including oppression, family acceptance, shame, identity development, HIV disease and addiction. (1999)
"The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) "believes that the same-gender sexual orientation should b afforded the same respect and rights as other-gender sexual orientation." (2007) Furthermore, NASW holds a commitment to working to eliminate prejudice and discrimination based on an individual's sexual orientation inside and outside the social workers profession."
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Bruce Shackleton's "Meeting the Shadow at Work", 2005.
A look at Shackleton's essay regarding the lack of fulfillment most people experience at work.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 68.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes Bruce Shackleton's essay about how most people lead their work lives and how this is typically an unfulfilling, yet very large, part of their lives. The paper explains Shackleton's contention that most people carry with them a shadow of another self that knows a better life than the one they are leading in their professional life.
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"Workaholics are not the same as hard workers. The latter do what is necessary to complete the job. However, when a project is done, they relax and take time off to spend with family and friends. Hard workers work long hours on a short-term basis with clear goals. They also may work extra hours in response to staffing shortages or special projects. In contrast, workaholics labor long hours consistently, staying late and coming in on weekends and holidays, even if they do not have any pressing deadlines. They constantly think about work, even when they are not at work."
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Alienation Work, 2005.
This paper explores why people go to work and put all their efforts into it to only receive a small amount of pay, such as minimum wage.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 76.95
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This paper explains that Karl Marx described and interpreted the organization of work emerging with industrial capitalism. The author points out that Rinehart theorized about why people work in dimensions of alienation. The paper argues that Rinehart's theory does apply to the author's personal work experiences at MacDonald's.
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Motivation in the Work Place, 2008.
A discussion of what motivates people in the work place.
1,381 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 67.95
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This paper examines what motivates employees and looks at how companies can satisfy an employee's needs. The paper explains that increasing motivation in the workplace will not always create more productivity. The paper looks at how poor equipment, poor materials, a negative work environment, politics and many other factors can have significant impact on production. The paper also discusses Abraham Maslow's research on human behavior and motivation and how this relates to motivation in the workplace. The paper also shows that there are specific things that a manager can do to create positive employee motivation, for example provide feedback, listen actively, hire superior people, provide recognition, and build empowered teams.
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"After the publication of the Hawthorne Studies, the study of understanding what motivated employees was the focus for many researchers. One of those researchers was Abraham Maslow. He did his investigation of human behavior between 1939 and 1943. Maslow believed that motivation was based on five specific human needs, physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization. These needs are known as Maslow's Need Hierarchy Theory. When the physiological need, having food or water is met, the need for being safe from harm is next. After the safety need is fulfilled the need for love is the focus. Self confidence, strength and the need for recognition from others are factors of the esteem need which is the next rung on the ladder, leading to the final need of self-actualization or becoming the best one can be. As we move up the ladder of needs they become harder and harder to achieve. The company or the manager is responsible for satisfying the higher needs."
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Motivations and Needs for Working in a Non-Salaried Organization, 2002.
Identifies the reasons why people work for non-salaried organizations.
1,078 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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There are organizations that employ individuals without the benefit of a salary or monetary compensation. These individuals work for various reasons. These reasons are discussed in detail, as this paper explores the motivations and needs in individuals who agree to work for non-salaried organizations. The paper applies psychologist David McLelland's "Need Theory" to prove that the need for power, achievement, and affiliation are the primary reasons why individuals are motivated to work in non-salaried organizations.
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"The need for power is perhaps a suggestive term if not properly identified in accordance to McLelland?s definition and category. The need for power is best described as an individual?s ?desire to influence, coach, teach, or encourage others to achieve? (Kreitner 1995 150). This definition categorizes that the need for power of an individual is constructive and has positive results, as opposed to power where an individual desires to control others for his or her own achievement only. In the study of individuals who have needs for power in non-salaried organizations, it can be construed that the organization?s employees or members are motivated by the experience that they get out of leading for the organization."
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People Styles, 2006.
A look at the 'driver' personality that some people possess and how those people can avoid constantly clashing with other people by surrounding themselves with different personality types.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper examines why a particular student can be described as possessing a driver personality. No less significantly, some time is devoted to outlining what steps drivers can take to smooth their professional relationships with others and why it is actually important that drivers surround themselves with different personality types. In the end, what should emerge from this discussion is how different personalities can add immeasurably to a professional environment: at least if the most forceful among us are prepared to see why this is so.
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"The following paper will examine why this student may best be described as a "driver". In addition to offering an explanation for why this is so, the following paper will provide examples of such behavior as well as specific suggestions that should improve relationships between those who do not fit neatly within the "driver" category. As should soon become apparent, being a hard-driving, results-oriented person is not a particularly easy way to go through life, but it is not a state of mind that needs to lead invariably to clashes with others. With that in mind, it is to a discussion of this issue that we now turn. "
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People in Society, 2002.
Asks the question: Why do people repeat and do what other people have done?
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 128.95
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How are people shaped? Why do people repeat things that others say? What effect does social class; environment, time, age and other factors have on people? This paper is written from the viewpoint of Max Weber.
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"Bringing Out the Best in People", 2002.
Review of the methods for motivating and bringing out the best in people outlined in McGinnis's book, "Bringing Out the Best in People".
1,936 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book, "Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel," by motivational speaker and writer, Alan Loy McGinnis. Specifically, it discusses motivating employees to achieve their personal best. The rules for motivating people, presented by the author of the book, are outlined and discussed in this paper as well.
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"This book could easily be applied to specific business environments and situations in a variety of ways. For example, a manager sees a certain employee is having difficulty remaining motivated and positive, and their work output has fallen off. Some managers might berate the employee, or "nag" them to get better, as McGinnis mentions (McGinnis 89). However, this is not effective managing, and may only further discourage the employee. A more effective way of dealing with the employee might be to first discover if something outside the workplace is affecting the employee, and then discussing ways to deal with the situation, while encouraging the employee to do their best. Perhaps a new task or project could bring them new satisfaction and change their perspective. Rule number two says to understand the other person's needs, and this is a classic example of the other person having some short term needs that need to be understood."
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Case Study: People's Insurance Company, 2007.
This paper is a case study exploring organizational and management problems relating to the close integration of People's Insurance Company of Canada (PICC) with its parent company, People's Bank.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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This paper explains that problems began at People's Insurance Company of Canada (PICC) when its originally organic and non-hierarchical organizational structure was integrated into the more traditional hierarchical structure of People's Bank, resulting in a highly mechanistic structure at the insurance company. The author of the paper recommends that, given the biases of the bank and the insurance company, the problems regarding the decision-making process must be evaluated by an outside, independent auditor/consultant. The paper stresses that one of the key ironies of downsizing as a cost saving strategy is that, while costs obviously may be reduced by downsizing a company's labor force, in general, downsized companies do not meet either their productivity or profitability goals.
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"In the case of PICC, this is a particular issue with respect to friction between the insurance company and the bank, as various bank staff have noted that people occupying comparable levels in the insurance company are rewarded with company cars and other perks while they themselves are not. The PICC management have defended these differences on the grounds that higher salary levels etc. were necessary to attract skilled employees within the insurance industry. As a start-up instead of an established institution, this need to attract and motivate staff with perks is a prime concern."
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Machiavelli: The Prince's Relationship with the People, 2002.
Examine's the text "The Prince" by political philosopher, Machiavelli and the Prince's interation with the people.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 64.95
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Machiavelli in "The Prince" provides detailed instruction to a teenaged ruler, one who has already received the childhood moral education from fairy tales and folk parables and is ready for actual, direct instruction in his official duties. This work was a specific guide, written on the model of historic rulers and societies. Based, in no small part, upon the life of Caesar Borgia, a heavy-handed dictatorial ruler, Machiavelli sought to describe the perfect state, one that, if it must have a Prince, should be run in the manner described. The work, however, would meet with a great deal of dismay and horror by the people he intended to "get in" with. In his need to become part of the political life of Italy (in which he had, at one time, been as influential and significant as Sir Thomas More had been in England) created "The Prince", a tract that did not truly reflect his own philosophies of political life, but one, he vainly hoped, would be received well by the ruling family. The purpose of "The Prince" also encompasses a trade-school-like approach, where the intricacies of policy, management and behavior are spelled out directly, in clear, plain language. It is the intent of this paper to examine the role of the Prince in relation to the people from the framework of political function as outlined in Machiavelli's work.
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The People Tax, 2005.
This paper describes how for Christians under Ottoman rule, the people involved had to pay a "People tax."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 13 sources, MLA, AU$ 68.95
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The paper discusses the People Tax and explains how for Christians under Ottoman rule, this subjection involved having some of their children taken into slavery by the Sultan to be trained for his elite army, the Janissaries.
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"People Tax: Like any conquering people who use religion as a justification for their military campaigns, Islamic leaders had to address the question of new citizens who would not convert to the conquering faith. For the Ottoman Empire, expelling or executing all the dissidents was not a viable option because of their predominance in the population. Polytheists, atheists and others like them were converted, killed or taken into slavery and converted by force because they were viewed as a risk of religious contamination."
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?The Forest People? by Colin Turnbull, 2005.
This paper discusses "The Forest People," by author ColinTurnbull in which he analyzes the BaMbuti, 'people of the forest', located in Congo, Africa, specifically in Ituri Forest.
1,385 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 67.95
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This paper explains that "The Forest People" by Colin Turnbull uses a personal narrative and ethnographic analysis to describe an anthropological experience which took place in the mid 1900s. The author points out that the author's ethnographic account differs from other studies of this type because he puts BaMbuti life in the context of the rapid industrialization taking over the region. The paper concludes that modernization has no place in the lives of most Africans because they have learned to survive and live despite the inconveniences forest life.
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"Indeed, many social scientists like Turnbull had attempted to depict an accurate and objective picture of what life in Eastern and Middle Eastern nations is, determined through scientific methods. By scientific method, this means that the procedures in which anthropological accounts were recounted were through systematic and objective thinking and analysis on the part of the researcher/anthropologist. Thus, during Turnbull's time, qualitative studies have become prevalent because the qualitative paradigm offered more avenues and opportunities for new discoveries to be generated in exploratory studies conducted in nations and societies in the African and Asian regions, among others."
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A Government of the People, 2006.
A paper arguing that the American government is no longer a government of the people.
2,553 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 112.95
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This paper makes the argument that America has become a government of the elite rather than a government of the people. The paper points to the fact that elections are financed and controlled by interest groups and that the cost of elections makes it prohibitive for anyone but the very elite to run for office. The paper details how these two factors are the primary reasons why America no longer has a government for the people, by the people and of the people but rather has a government that follows the political Golden Rule: He who has the gold rules.
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""Every civilization has a government of some sort...The Americans make their state, as they make their armies and corporations, a vast organizational achievement; they speak of 'the business of government'." (Lerner, p. 353) The problem is that government, and the election of so-called "representatives" has become a business. Big business. And, the bigger the business the more influence it has on the elections, on legislation, on the future of the ordinary citizen who does not have the financial influence to participate."
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