Her parents instilled strong values, humbleness, and the ability to listen to people and value what they are saying. These human skills attributes layer the foundation and is reflected in the ethical values Barnes has sustained throughout her career. Brenda Barnes received “her undergraduate degree in business and economics from Rockford, Illinois’ Augustana College in 1975… also entered Loyola University, from which she graduated with her M.B.A in 1978” (notablebiographies.com). In 1976, she landed a job as a business manager for Wilson Sporting Goods formerly a division of Pepsi. With determination she strived to succeed in a male dominated company and achieved her goal of becoming head of sales.
Two major life events that had a significantly positive impact on my life were, moving out of my mother’s house and becoming a mother myself. In all the things I have endured in my life I chose moving out of my mother’s house because it was my first big step in becoming an adult. The next major event into adult hood was starting a family and becoming a mother myself. These two events helped me grow up and learn to be responsible. Urie Bronfenbrenner proposed a theory of ecological systems, which focuses on broad, interconnected influences on human development.
That, along with her nursing background also helped when it came to analyzing situations and making tough decisions. Andra had built her trucking company from the ground up by borrowing money from family and using credit cards. While she was a nurse, she took and analyzed what a patient was telling her and used it to her advantage and made the decision to become an owner of a trucking company. She has also become a leader with her people and heritage. Andra the program Rush which involves itself with organizations that work to improve the position of minorities.
Which was the first multi racial in the U.S. and it was during a time when the United States still had racism. Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey were Anna’s mentors and role models in her Life, her biggest mentor and supporter was her husband Lawrence. He supported her in every way and he was the one who build her the famous deck at her house. Others artist mentioned and shown in the movie were Morton Subotnick, Luciano Berio, her two daughters Daria Halprin and Rana Halprin. Page 2 I think that Anna’s salient features in this movie were spiritual and natural movement.
At this time you did not need a college degree to work in this industry and she got the job after her first interview. She said she was pretty good looking and a very good people person at the time and she believes that was a lot of the reason she got her job. She thought job searching was fun, but yet frustrating because she needed a job as soon as possible to help put my father through college, because she was living with him at the age of eighteen out of high school. She thought that all the hard work at home and with various tasks that her parents made her do helped her keep a good work ethic when she acquired this first job. She thinks that if she would want to change something about her careers and choices it would be that she would try more things out rather than just sticking with the same job for her entire life.
Running Head: Week Two Exercises Week Two Exercises BUS 642: Business Research Methods & Tools Instructor: David Brownfield December 12, 2011 Making Research Decision 1 (Pg. 50) (Cooper, Schindler, 2011) 1A. The most prudent decisions she can make about her responsibility to herself and others would be honesty. If she is a sincere and honest employee with her company and knowing that she had some valuable information that the company could used or have some type of feedback from the company competitor might benefit her at the end. The company that she works for could extend her budget knowing that the information she found is valuable to them and to her since she
These are the people that leave lasting marks on our world and make it a better place for the rest of us to live out our lives in a positive and meaningful manner. One of these people that felt so strongly for a cause is a woman by the name of Lilly Ledbetter and because she was strong enough to take a stand and never back down there is now a bill written in the books bearing her name, “The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.” Lilly Ledbetter lived her life as many Americans do. She was a proud mother of two and a loving wife. She worked tirelessly at a local Goodyear Tire and Rubber factory for 19 years on an overnight shift from 7p.m. to 7a.m.
In Rwandan culture, being a good girl—clean, well mannered and virtuous—was important to maintain personal status and family reputation. The expectations of society were mirrored in her home, although her parents also expected her to study and expand her horizons. Her parents were both trained as educators. In addition to being educators, her family subsidized their income by farming. They grew and harvested beans, coffee and bananas on their property near Lake Kivu.
Today, HP’s sustainability priorities reflect their commitment to balancing corporate values and business goals with the company’s impact on society and the environment. Summary HP has been working on environmental and sustainability initiatives for a very long time, well before such issues were of mainstream interest. Mark Hurd, HP’s CEO, in his 2009 letter to his stakeholders, 2 understates HP’s sustainability activities. Shelley Zimmer, HP Executive, responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) seems to agree that Hurd takes a conservative approach when she says “we are only now beginning to understand how to communicate the details to our stakeholders and right now we are reflecting a somewhat modest approach to talking about our CSR achievements.”3 In his 2009 letter to his Shareholders, Hurd, mentions in an understated way many of HP’s CSR activities and says HP is helping to “Build a Better World”. Hurd does note, without mentioning specifics, that HP’s 2009 sustainability measurements were recognized by Newsweek and ranked # 1 among the 500 largest corporations in the United States.
This week’s case study is about Myta Ong and her company, Plant World, where she could implement an “open, friendly and personal” culture since the beginning. Keeping track of the employees’ birthdays and also of their children, knowing more about their personal lives and making an effort to arrange schedules adaptable to specific employees’ personal lives are examples of Ong’s attitudes within her company and with her employees. As stated in the text: “Ong involved herself increasingly with people and less with plants as the company grew”. All this effort to create Plant World’s organizational culture worked, as we could understand from the end of the text, since Plant World was in trouble and everyone stood with Ong and her company even without