Performance Rating Essays

  • The Impact of Impression Management on Performance Rating

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    Impression management is a common phenomenon in the organizations (Wayne & Liden, 1995), and employees may engage in such behaviors to develop a favourable self-image (Bolino & Turnley, 1999). Individuals distinguish that by improving their performance; they will be seen as efficient and dedicated employees and will be considered as an asset to the organization so they will be in a position to impress others, including their immediate supervisors. However, this possibility has not yet been

  • The Pitiful Campus Dining Experience

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    satisfied with the overall performance of Service America, the catering company that handles all of the campus dining facilities. I surveyed fifty students over a period of two days at different times and locations. All of those I surveyed ate at least occasionally at one of the dining facilities. The survey rated such aspects as variety, quality, and taste of the food offered as well as the student's opinion of the prices they paid and overall service they received. The ratings given were initially

  • Analysis of Tender Option Bonds

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    TOBs are synthetically created short-term tax exempt instruments. A TOB sponsor will buy a portfolio of fixed rate, long term municipal bonds with ratings between AA-AAA and combine them with an interest rate swap to create short term tax exempt floating rate bonds. The tax-exempt status creates a high level of demand particularly from investors who seek tax exempt cash flow as a source of annual income and revenue. The buyers of TOBs are for the most part money market mutual funds. Money market

  • AIDS in the Movie Philadelphia

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    PHILADELPHIA Rated: PG-13 Release Date: 23-Dec-1993           DVD Date: 02-Nov-2004           HBS User Ratings Directed By:     Written By:           Cast:           1 review, 12 ratings Jonathan Demme     Ron Nyswaner                Tom Hanks Denzel Washington           Awesome     16.67% Antonio Banderas           Worth A Look     11.11% Our Reviewer Says:     Jason Robards                Just Average     16.67% "It's a touchy subject." - MP Bartley Joanne Woodward           Pretty Crappy     44

  • Reality Television

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    to TV stardom “boasting out-sized ratings, out-sized egos, out-sized personalities, and out-sized conflicts” where contestants are stranded on a desert island and kicked off one by one each week. As with anything that seems to get ratings, soon there were many knockoffs to follow. In 2001 reality TV continued to dominate the airwaves. Fact Monster refers to how “for the first time in eight years, NBC's “Must-See” Thursday night lineup did not reign in the ratings. Survivor II: The Australian Outback

  • Will Ferrell

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    years such as Buddy the elf, Ricky Bobby the racecar driver, Ron Burgandy the anchorman, Chaz Michael Michaels the figure skater, and many others. Ferrell has become a modern comical titan as he blew away Saturday Night Live with some of the best ratings in history and has developed into one of Hollywood's funniest and highest paid comical actors. With the way that he can pull off dumb humor and make people fall out of their chairs laughing time and time again, it seems that Ferrell was destined

  • Metaphors In The Vietnam War

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    Metaphors that Justify War Truth Uncloaked Do you think we had all the information that was at the President's disposal when he made the decision to deploy our troops in the Gulf? Do you think having that information might have made you feel more comfortable about our involvement? Should our government decide what we get to know and what we don't? By in large, we hear exactly what our government wants us to hear. Knowing this, at no other time paralleled in history, we want the truth;

  • Pornography Does Not Cause Rape

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    is that the mass media does not cause undesirable social behaviour and in actuality, the media people should not be dubbed as the "bad guys".  They simply use their power in the most constructive ways possible in order to promote their ratings and popularity.  One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and disaster. Having said this, why is it then, that many in society still believe otherwise; why do they continue to believe that pornography is

  • Microsoft Vs. Government

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    because of the increased probability of price wars and more opportunity for critical innovation in the industry. Also, the eventual decision made by the government concerning the future of Microsoft will play a key role in future public approval ratings. Empirically speaking, the companies, an... ... middle of paper ... ... create an unhealthy, unbalanced market place for computer and computer software industry. The consequences are too dire to let Microsoft go on like it has in the past

  • School Uniforms Solving the Problem

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    School Uniforms Solving the Problem Over the past couple of years, school uniform policies have been enforced as the most efficient method for “solving” problems such as crime and attendance ratings in our public schools. Many schools state that it is quite true that uniforms are lowering such mentioned rates of crime tremendously, but can this really be proven? Currently, there have only been informal studies that try to actually see if uniforms are helping, no long term studies. Technically

  • The Problem of Video Game Violence is Exaggerated

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    only) rating on the front of the videogame cover. This means that only players seventeen or older should be playing such games. However, many children around the ages of twelve and under are acquiring these video games as gifts or are purchasing the games themselves. Therefore, it can be assumed that the parents are purchasing M-rated games for their children, and that stores are willingly selling these young children M-rated games. As Paul Keegan says, parents are not following these ratings and stores

  • How To Buy A Home

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    score with at least a 640 or better. That is standard for the market. (1) The credit score is based on the FICO score. FICO stands for, Fair Isaac Corporation, a company that has been in business since the early 1950's and monitors consumers' credit ratings and put a scoring system on it. (2) Conventional loans are usually financed up to eighty to ninety percent with a down payment required of ten to twenty percent. The potential buyer must also have a debt ratio not exceeding 28/39 of their income.

  • Six Hours Of Television

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    to others who have never been here. Everyone is gorgeous, lives happily, and overcomes all problems, but more on that later. Four hours of the programming I chose is perhaps the most popular programming this year, consistently topping the Nielsen ratings. For the remaining two hours of programming I decided to look at two police drama shows, one that was brand new this season and one not brand new, but still going strong. For the two hours of police dramas, I looked at programs with different angles

  • The Media and the Uneducated Masses

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    interested in attracting their audiences.  As the years advanced and technology followed, media began taking different approaches to arouse the public.  Conflicts on television where seen as a more interesting and productive approach to increasing ratings.  After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mud throwing and even emotion out of it's political guests.  Politicians who be allowed air-time to address questions presented by viewers and interviewers. One major complaint however

  • Comparing Debt Financing and Equity Financing

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    the investment, but it will come in the form of dividends and/or selling the stock back. There are also a few cons in accounting for these instruments are either debt of equity. "Excessive debt financing may impair your (the company's) credit rating and your ability to raise more money in the future (Financing Basics, 1). If a company has too much debt, it could be considered too risky and unsafe for a creditor to lend money. Also with excessive debt, a business could have problems with business

  • The Benefits to Society of Information Technology

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    and marketers have managed to make the most out of it, to the point where even people who do not care about the game or the sport would watch it just for the commercials. Companies will air their best commercials during this event due to the high ratings that this event has. Broadcasters are also able to improve the viewing experience of sports events by providing fans with game-specific content when they want it. Team facts and game statistics give fans a closer view of the game. This ends to be

  • The Dumbing Down of American Fiction

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    American Fiction The 1976 film "Network" is an acerbic satire of television's single-minded obsession with mass ratings.One of the film's main characters, Howard Beale, is called the "Mad Prophet of the Airways," and his weekly harangues produce a "ratings motherlode"--yet he constantly admonishes his viewers to "Turn the damn tube off!"During one such rant Beale berates his audience as functional illiterates: "Less than three percent of you even read books!" he shouts messianically--and then promptly

  • Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death

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    or Foe? Electronic media is inferior to print media due to the fact that electronic media can be bias, selective, and evasive for the purpose of entertainment. Electronic media serves as a form of entertainment with a main goal of serving their ratings rather than serving the people. It would seem that Postman would agree with this theory since he describes electronic media as a form of entertainment rather than a reliable source of information and facts in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death.

  • The Effects of Television Violence on Children

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    Thesis Statement: Unsupervised children who watch violence on television exhibit violence in their everyday lives and develop into aggressive adults. “Research shows that television violence increases levels of aggression, fear, and desensitization among some who consume it” (Hamilton). This quotation by James Hamilton briefly summarizes the potentially negative effects of television on young minds. A child’s favorite television show can keep a child occupied while the mother prepares dinner

  • News Media, Money and Infotainment

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    is known as "Infotainment". The media's goals are ratings based. They use shows like Jerry Springer, Entertainment Tonight, and Hard Copy to bring in these ratings. The media of today has grown into a profit-based industry that tries to entertain us with the news and with tabloid television shows. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the three big television stations, of ABC, CBS, and NBC, changed to provide more infotainment. Networks lost ratings to the heavy competition of cable and home video