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Selection for these jobs are done on the basis of personal interviews. A committee consisting of vice-presidents and superintendents interviews candidates initially cleared by the Personnel Department. The supervisor who has a job opening makes final selection. After a year, each employee is guaranteed that he will not be discharged except for misconduct and he is guaranteed at least 30 hours of work each week. There has been no layoff at Lincoln since 1949, which has been one of the key attractions. Each supervisor formally evaluates his subordinates twice a year. Marks gained on the performance evaluation cards are converted to numerical scores, which are forced to average 100 for each evaluating supervisor. Individual merit rating scores normally range from 80 to 100. Any score over 110 requires a special letter to top management. These scores (over 110) are not considered in computing the required 100-point average for each evaluating supervisor. Suggestions for improvements often result in recommendations for exceptionally high performance scores. Supervisors discuss individual performance marks with the employees…

company stronger and to do better than ever back in World War II. The Navy Price Review Board and the IRS did create some friction, but Lincoln Electric Company was able to work there a way around those tough spots. Part of this was thought due to the employees being motivated to perform well. This provided them with an output that was record breaking from 1935 and onward. By 1945, they found themselves more than the double of the usual product output from their peers in similar situations.…

Lincoln passed away in 1965. Since that time, Lincoln has continued to uphold the company 's original values. Foremost being guaranteed continuous employment and a merit rating system. A position at Lincoln is guaranteed for life. Initially awarded after one-year of employment, this has since been raised to three years of service and a pledge of 30-hours work a week. The company has never laid off employees, even during a 40% drop in sales in the 1980s and the 2008-2009 recession (Lincoln,…

Seeing all of the different pieces of art in person really seemed to intensify the experience of critiquing art in a different way than I had experienced just viewing pictures of art in class or at home. Some of the pieces really affected my mood and would grab my attention and leave me in thought for 10-15 minutes before I had felt ready to walk to the next area, it was something I hadn’t experienced and didn’t expect to experience when originally taking this course. I saw a lot…

interesting pieces but a handful of them really caught my attention and stood out. There was one interesting piece I saw under the title Reverie by John Brown which is an oil on canvas. This particular art piece caught my eye because it was so smooth in appearance compared to other works around it and had small details that came together to picture a young American women sitting on a…

compared to my expectations. In such a modest building the rooms had large open ceilings which made the museum feel superior to what it actually was. The Fralin’s collection was inferior to what I originally thought it was going to be. However, each room that I walked into had a discrete atmosphere that went along with each section of artwork. As I first walk in I was hit with a wide open room that was illuminated with light that made me feel overwhelmed. The light complemented the pieces of…

The Senmut with princess Nefrua was a sculpture treats two bodies as a single cubic block. The cubic block gives an image of a woman and child, it is in 3D dimension, and it’s the form of metal. In this sculpture the line clearly shows the details of human head figure texture. It has hair, eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. Also underneath of the woman and child heads it was a big cubic that looks like represent the body of the two heads. The cubic has been carved with an ancient characters or…

also known as Remotely Operated Vehicles, to explore the SS Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor. I definitely think that ROVs are critical for underwater research. In a different theory, people think that ROVs are useless, and that humans can do the same work that the ROVs can. However, ROVs are ABSOLUTELY valuable to underwater research because they can get to places that humans cannot reach, they can get pieces of information that we can’t see or grab because it is small or heavy, and they…

fractions, it is imperative that the educator starts by assessing the students understanding of what a half is. Based on the Australian Curriculum this often takes place in the Year One descriptor (ACMNA016), where it identifies that students are able to half an item and identify how it is an equal portion. Developing a understanding into how to halve an object so both parts are equal, play a vital role in understanding how fraction work, this is based on a half being the largest fraction before…

Of all the exhibits, the “hate room” was my favorite. I learned more information about the artifacts in that room than the artifacts in any other room. I learned from the other rooms, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t have a general idea of. In the “hate room,” I saw how racial stereotyping influenced advertising. The first thing that caught my eye was the black cast iron banks. I always saw pictures of how we were depicted in the eyes of the media early on, but I never saw an actual prop. They…