Of Mice and Men is really about Lennie and George’s journey and relationship with each other, and how they really need each other in their lives. Lennie is very dependent on George. George is one of his only friends and a very important person in his life. George guides Lennie through his life like a father would to his son. The first thought when Lennie is doing something wrong or bad is George because he knows that George wouldn’t want him to being in it.
“The Characteristics of a Good Boss vs. a Bad Boss” We live in a society where people need a job to survive, which offers a broad range of job opportunities, although finding employment will be suitable for people can be difficult in today’s employment world. For some of us that mean putting up with a good boss or a bad boss. A boss is generally defined as someone who directly supervises the work activities of others. The character of whether a boss is considered good or bad depends on the outlook of the employee, which is supervised. A good boss door is always open, whereas a bad boss is not pleasing to be around, always keeping their door closed.
With other workers around George becomes extra cautious of lennie as he cannot predict what actions lennie is capable of with different people around him now, not just George. A crucial part in the book that shows George’s true colours on how he feels about lennie is when he looks out and protects lennie from Curley who is the boss’ son. Curley really takes an eye to lennie and threatens him numerous amount of times. This then leads to George to become very protective over lennie showing that he cares deeply about lennie and needs to keep him apart from curely so there is no trouble between the two of them. A quotation to show that George puts all the negatives of lennie behind and looks out for him in an important situation is when he worries as he sees Curley for the first time and immediately spots trouble “ya know, lennie, I’m scared I’m gonna tangle with that bastard myself.
He is a smart person with great insights and energy but when it comes to dealing with people he is not tactful enough rather he’s blunt to the extent of being intimidating, even to his boss Jane. His entire
What is a good boss? When in a low level working environment a quality leader can be very helpful but also rare. A lot of less prestigious jobs consist of young and/or under educated/trained employees. This can be very frustrating to a supervisor running a shift full of rowdy teenagers, especially if a boss has been thrown into their position without being taught how to deal with such circumstances. This is often the main problem with poor managers; therefore they substitute the needed skills with yelling, intimidation, and undeserved disrespect of their employees.
George and Lennie are two migrant workers in the 1930’s that have nothing but each other, and the hope for the realization of an American dream. George being the good man he is has to put up with Lennie who seems to be nothing but trouble. Lennie is an innocent man but the mild mental disability he carries in his life seems to work against him and George. Throughout the book we learn a great deal about the relationship between Lennie and George, and just why George made the decision he made at the end of the novella.
A substantial amount of CoolBurst management and employees have worked at the company for a long time and continue to tradition of the close minded work environment. The employment team does not have a diverse background or work history, so there lack of knowledge and exposure to other work environments enhances the company’s rigorous environment. There is lack of creativity in not only the work environment, but also in the problem solving that the company does. The company has become focused just on procedures and policies, oppose to new approaches to problem solving and growing within the market. This makes employees more concerned with the office politics than company success which will hinder the growth of any company.
(Rose) Society makes it difficult for service workers to get ahead and play a big role in teaching these ways in the world. The point Rose was making is that intelligence isn’t just based on testing. People can learn skills and abilities to perform a job from anywhere, mainly from the experience on the job. I feel as though with all the research from going out and seeing the day to day operations of various blue collar jobs Rose did his job to get his point across to his audience. He presented the opposing views and delivered effective claims that would keep his audience
While he is extremely bright and hard-working, he appears to lack essential leadership skills needed to manage people. Alex needs to get involved in getting to know people better in order to be able to guide his team in achieving common goals rather than just his own personal ones. He needs to improve his leadership style and learn to motivate his subordinates and give them the credit they deserve in order to get the work done. He tends to micro-manage his people and get involved in every step of the work while he should learn how to delegate and motivate other to excel. He lacks the ability of working together with other people as a team.
She often calls up the HODs for meeting just to settle some minor issue, yet the discussion or the decision making process is always ineffective. This is because the team members tend to make decision with bounded rationality, and unable to diagnose and identify the problem as well as the decision criteria. Motivation Personally, Mr. Teo’s effort in the decision-making process was driven by intrinsic motivation. According to McClelland’s three-needs theory, people are motivated based on their need for achievement, power and affiliation (Robbins, Cenzo, Coulter & Woods, 2013). Since Mr. Teo was a newly promoted head of department, I believed that he has the need for achievement, and he was trying his best to excel in his jobs to prove his capability.