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Take a look at this: 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/a-turn-of-the-page-for-newsweek.html

You may see how print newspapers are going to extinct in near future. 

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Think too much 

and you will create a problem that was not there in the first place. 

Quiz 1

Happy Bayram to you all

the questions of today's quiz are as followed: 

1-      The dimensions of culture (8 points)

● write the right culture dimension for each term

 a) Work and ideas are shared by the members of the group

b) Decisions are made quickly and being spontaneous is important

c) Men and women have similar status and ideas

d) Staff can work without knowing all the details

e) Most employees do not have close contact with those who make decisions

f) Staff prefer to work on their own ideas and projects

g) Everyone can make suggestions and their ideas are listened to

h) Planning ahead is very important

2-      Will print newspapers extinct in near future?  (5 points)

3-      Please translate the paragraph below: (5 points)

In 2005 Facebook received $12.7 million in funding from Accel Partners and expanded to include high school networks and added a popular photo sharing features.

4-      Write an email to your supervisor and tell him that you are going to be on leave for the next week. ( 5 points)

5-      Decide which of the following factors are hygiene or motivation factors: (7 points)

● Rude colleagues

●promotion

● Low pay

● A job you enjoy

● An aggressive manager

● Only a few days of annual leave

● Responsibility

6-      Bonus points:

● Which country is the most democratic country in the world? (2 points)

● What is the name of the 20^th century’s best book? Who wrote it? What is the origin language of the book? (3 points)  

*If you want to know about the results of this quiz please inform me by email. 

* any other question is welcomed. 

Unit 3

Motivation

Herzberg carried out a motivation study on 200 accountants and engineers who worked in companies in the USA. these subjects of the study were asked two questions: 

1- When did you feel particularly good about your job? 

2- When did you feel exceptionally bad about your job? 

The responses that Herzberg obtained were interesting and fairly consistent. Reported good feelings were usually associated with job experiences and job content. 

One example of these was the head of an accounting department; he was given the job of installing new computer equipment. He took pride in his work and was pleased to know that the new equipment made a big difference in how his department functioned. Reported bad feelings on the other hand, were usually associated with the surrounding or peripheral aspects of the job - the job content. An example of these feelings was give by an engineer; his first job was routine record keeping and managing the office when the boss was gone. His boss was always too busy to train him and became annoyed when he tried to ask questions. The engineer said that he was frustrated in this job context and that he felt that he was just an unimportant assistant in a dead-end job. 

Herzberg concluded that job satisfiers are related to job content and that  job dissatisfies are related to job context.  Herzberg labelled that satisfiers 'motivators'  and he called the dissatisfies 'hygiene factors'.  

Unit two

Dear all, 

After Monday's debates you can answer the following questions: 
1- Will print newspapers extinct in near future? 
2- Explain the effects of technologies in your daily life.
3- Explain the effects of technologies in your job.
4- Explain how Facebook could expand its activities.
5- Why Facebook is more successful that the other public networks? 
6- Which technology devises do you use in your job and how they can change the outcome of what you are doing?