During the final week, I will be writing on Option 1: Health and Safety. This will focus on stress, my stress levels, and how I can address it. Starting with the Life Stress Inventory, I had a cumulative score of 224. This score, “implies about a 50% chance of a major health breakdown in the…

This week I will discuss a situation in which compensation served as a motivating factor for me in the workplace. Growing up I was a competitive gymnast and in high school, after I retired I began coaching. It was my first real and consistent job, before that I had covered coaching some classes and done…

This week’s blog post will focus on interviews and their effectiveness. Personally, the interviews I have partaken in that have been the best are ones that feel less like an interrogation and more like a conversation. Sometimes, an interview can feel like the interviewee is just pelting you with a list of questions, which does…

This week’s blog is focusing on job descriptions. While there may be some challenges with maintaining and developing job descriptions, they are incredibly important parts of a job. A job description includes job identification, job summary, task statements, and working conditions (lecture 4). This gives employees and potential employees an outline of some of the…

When looking at 2020 Fortune best companies to work at, the three companies I decided to focus on and take a closer look at were The Cheesecake Factory, REI, and Marriott International. I chose these three companies because I am familiar with them all and I wanted to focus on corporations that are in different…

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