My Views on the “No Late Work Accepted” Policy
According to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, the term “late” is defined as after the expected, arranged or usual time. Late work denotes the task presented after the expected deadline. The “no late work accepted” policy is a sanction imposed as a deterrent to late submission of assignments. Most organizations work on schedules and timetables. The strict adherences to such schedules make the difference between success and failure for such organizations. Therefore, most of these organizations have enforced the no late work accepted policy in an effort to enhance their efficiency. While the policy is well-meant, the question of to what extent it should be enforced arises.
Importance of this Policy
To begin with, organizations and mostly schools require coordination between the different institutions existing in them. This coordination is based on time-frames within which certain objectives must be attained. It is imperative that a system of control of is put in place to ensure that each party in the organization accomplishes its mandate on time. The no late work accepted policy is part of this control system and is aimed at ensuring accountability among people working in any given organization.
Many people are prone to procrastinations, the idea of intentionally putting off work to a later time with the view that no serious consequences can come out of it. This is an abuse of leniency on the part of the worker or student in a school setting. It shows that they are not taking the work with the seriousness it requires, which could also mean they do not believe in the vision of the organization. Imposing sanctions on late delivery of assignments serves to enforce such visions and p...
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...nts is enhanced. Provision of exceptions also ensures that the law is not applied indiscriminately but rather, caution is exercised to accommodate such situations where the late submitters had no control over their failures. Therefore, I believe that the “no late work accepted policy” is very good.
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Previous generations have a strong belief of keeping work and home life separate; that work is for work and home is for play (Rampell, 2011, para 21). Today’s professionals do not seem to abide by similar beliefs, constantly crossing the borders of one into the other. While many recognize this as an issue that could result in employees being less productive, it has actually resulted in them accepting that their work may run late into the evening or even into the weekend. I agree with this completely in that I grew up being taught that business is business and personal is personal; you leave your home life at the door. But now times have changed, and my weekends are no longer dedicated to my home life, but for work, because I attend classes during the week. Also, in my line of work in the Allied Health industry, it is a requirement to work off hours. Long gone are the days of working nine to five, Monday through Friday; technology and the demand of wanting affairs done and done as soon as possible, has made it so the “work week” is now 24-7. “Jon Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard Institute of Politics, said, ‘Some experts also believe that today’s young people are better at quickly switching from one task to another, given their exposure to so many stimuli during their childhood and adolescence’” (Rampbell,
To discuss work, one must first of all try to define work. Once one starts to think about this definition however, one finds that there are as many definitions of work as there are people. Experts such as sociologists have been trying to reach a definite answer, yet they can never agree between them. Although it is accepted that work is that time which is not leisure, one is then confounded with trying to find a definition for leisure. Stanley Parker reached a compromise by dividing our time in five sections, merging from pure work to pure leisure. However this difficulty in defining work should point out that these many different definitions lead to different attitudes, with the result that one can never generalise.
Renzo’s hands are sweaty and the pressure of clocking in on time for holidays becomes a race for all employees. When holidays arrive, Mr. Paul rearranges employee’s clock in hours. Thus, it is required for employees to enter at least 30 minutes before starting time or you can expect a scream across the store, shouting “Your, late”. Either an employee clocks in on time or they become late. For instance, Renzo mentions “before, when I started working, you could clock other employees in, but now a new system was embedded at Adidas, which uses a tablet to scan your fingerprints and mark you present”. So once, an employee is late, Mr. Paul, deducts major employee points and usually makes an employee start over and reach the goal of 500 employee points starting from zero. These employee benefits, gives access to raise an employee’s hourly rate and obtain exclusive employee discounts that becomes available when the limit of 500 points is reached. “I surely love it”, says
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Weeks takes the concept of the refusal of work from the autonomous Marxist tradition developed in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. According to her this concept allows to analyze the value and meaning of work (p.13). Work is a problem because it dominates our lives and benefits capitalism. Therefore, in order to undermine the problems related to work, we must stop working.
Professionalism starts in schools, the five ways workplace professionalism starts in schools are, punctuality, good attendance, collaboration, conformity, and problem solving. By being punctuality in school it shows the instructor and your classmates that you are being serried about your school work. By being serious and being on time for school it makes students more apt to going to work each day and being at work at the correct time which shows your employer that you are professional. Students who skip school often are not as likely to have good work attendance. Grades are impacted by the students attendance. If a student is used to being absent at school it is the same as missing a day of work. The article stated that absenteeism costs
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This is a normal ethical problem that almost every company has encounter, because every company has employees who work for their company. The employees may use the working time during a normal work day to do other things, such as doing some personal activities, taking long breaks, leaving early, and other stuffs. Since Microsoft is a multinational company, it could be a major problem because some other country may have a different culture and traditions. In those cultures, employer may accept late arrival and leaving early. As everyone knows time is a money for a business. The more time people spend on working, it would result in higher outcomes that will lead to higher profits. The company needs to be very careful when talking about ethics, because people view and define ethic differently. The ethic may be just what is right and wrong. So they have to be open and respect other people ideas and opinions. The possible solution for this problem is to set up a standard rule that all workers must be on time, and have a limit for an excuses. This would make people think more about skipping job, or late to
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This calls a need for people especially students in college to warm up to the fact that if they are unable to manage their time appropriately while in school it is apparent that as they transition into their working life they will demonstrate the same effects still while on the job.
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Nowadays work became one of the defining characteristics of a person. Work might influence one’s perception of the world, health, social ties, and emotional state (Vallas, Finlay and Wharton 2009: 5-7). As a result, work is not only a means through which a person earns income, but also a mechanism of bringing a person into society. There are virtually thousand types of work such as teachers, plumbers, cashiers, scholars, engineers, doctors, astronauts, poets, janitors and so on, each of which has its specific duties and tasks which provide a value to society. This variation in work leads to complexity of organizing labor. Hence, when entering job market one signs a contract that outlines both employee and employer duties, which covers formal side of work (ibid., 104). Nevertheless, in reality the way work should be done and the actual way of how work is done can differ significantly. This means that there exists hidden world of work. Hidden world of work can be understood as the one which is not seen to public, where workers come to agreement both among themselves and with employers (ibid.). Blue – collar occupation, which is characterized by an hourly payment to physical labor, can be an example of work that incorporates both formal and informal work practices (Gibson and Papa 2000: 68). This paper will analyze the importance of informal work practices at blue – collar occupations and identify the effect of informal work practices on the production process.
Attendance is a crucial aspect of a student’s education. When a student is tardy or absent, this interferes with them receiving the information given in class. Class introductions that include instructions, objectives, due dates, etc. may be missed if a student is tardy and if a student is absent, they may also get behind on their class work and homework. Communication between teacher and students about the classroom management procedures for these two things are important so that students are informed and are able to take the initiative to gather what they have missed which can help avoid them falling behind. If tardies and absences are frequent, a teacher may begin to be concerned and question what could be the possible reasons behind it, whether that be an outside force in a student’s life or something that may be happening in the teacher’s own classroom. Establishing a relationship and reflecting upon oneself as a teacher to why the class might be having