Sentences with phrase «kind of work culture»

Understand what kind of work culture you like and want from your job, then listen carefully to your interviewer's answer to see if this particular job is a good match for you.

Not exact matches

The answer will tell you if the person is looking for comfort with a culture or a particular work style, or really searching for a place where he can put his passion to work doing a particular kind of job.
«You just have to be purposeful and thoughtful about the kind of environment you create, because it has such an influence on culture, work ethic and your company's spirit.»
Sydney Finkelstein says, «That's kind of how the CEO culture really works in America.
SIL's Language and Culture Archives houses over 60,000 works of various kinds, including scholarly publications, Bible translations, and vernacular literacy materials in addition to SIL's flagship publication, the Ethnologue — an online database of the world's more than 7,000 living languages.
Instead of acting as apologists for the divorce culture, West and Hewlett propose a Parents» Bill of Rights, a kind of work in progress outlined at the end of the book and on flyers abundantly distributed during their book tour.
One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.
Rather than using the scientific method to test the hypothesis that torture doesn't work, we should consider whether or not a culture of torture belongs in the kind of society we want to build.
But we can at least analyze the kinds of love that are needed by every child, and we can see the ways that the culture has organized to meet those needs, needs which, when driven deeply enough, necessitate the wisdom and the sanctity of a monogamous marriage and a faithful living together as far as possible so that the full work of parenting can be done.
The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).
I am presently living and working in a different culture which bases marriage and being together as a societal and emotionally stable state to be in; the values and expectations just seem to be so different, and where interestingly, private life really is a private affair and not some kind of «peep show» as in out Western culture of show and tell all as much as possible on Television and Films.
The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said at the time she had not agreed to stand aside and claimed she had been a victim of a «bullying culture of the worst kind».
«I think a major challenge is the way and manner in which our democracy and the political system works within a presidential system, wherein we really do not have the kind of culture, temperament and attitude to actually run a presidential system of government.
One way around that problem is to work with another kind of 3D cell culture known as a spheroid, which hasn't yet gone too far down the path of development and still contains mostly identical, similarly differentiated cells.
Most important though, whether you are a business owner or an employee, they can create the kind of corporate culture that you actually want to work in.
However, now one such film has come along, and there is, for whatever reason, a sort of eagerness for it to fail, with people anticipating hating exactly the kind of work that is sadly lacking in mainstream film culture.
The Avengers movies work on two distinct levels for two very different audiences, and it's that kind of meta - awareness of not only telling a good story but being aware of the industry in which that story is being told that helps Marvel dominate pop culture with such confidence.
Park has worked his entire career to avoid the usual kids» film template: fart and burp jokes and pop culture references wrapped up with chase scenes and smashed inside some kind of valuable lesson.
I know that if we're going to transform our schools into the kinds of learning places where our children will thrive we need to attend to the culture of the adults who work in schools.
Analyze the work culture and user preferences to understand which kind of eLearning will best deliver the desired business impact.
One of my main research questions is whether adults and educators can support the kind of learning dynamics that I'm observing when kids are engaging in peer - based knowledge exchange, such as that found on online fan sites.This should work for academic content as well as popular culture.
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization describes three companies that have explicitly connected their mission to employee development, but it also offers a roadmap for the rest of us, who may well never work at that kind of organization.
He says, «be encouraged to take the chance and learn something new today, do not be afraid to go against the main stream and actually be prepared to work, embrace different cultures, people and encourage diversity, do something for other people, do not just think of yourself, be proud of what you could possibly achieve, have a goal and strive to achieve it, be kind to others, you do not know what baggage they are carrying...» Read More.
He states, «Be encouraged to take the chance and learn something new today, do not be afraid to go against the mainstream and actually be prepared to work, embrace different cultures, people and encourage diversity, do something for other people, do not just think of yourself, be proud of what you could possibly achieve, have a goal and strive to achieve it, be kind to others, you do not know what baggage they are carrying...»
And we will work to improve school culture and combat bullying of all kinds.
If you have a very professional work organization in schools where there's a lot of discretion, a lot of professional autonomy in a collaborative culture, you get unions that very much reflect that kind of stance.
And most importantly, we work together to develop the kind of school culture that drives students to success.
We talked about the kinds of books I was working on, and how there is such a richness of diversity within the Muslim community that is rarely seen in pop culture, despite nearly a quarter of the world being Muslim!
Other companies such as Hampton Creek are working to also make this a reality for humans; the brand, which just released a first - of - its - kind eggless scrambled egg, is in the early stages of introducing cell - cultured meat and seafood products.
We travel for all kinds of reason: adventure, food, spirituality, culture, school, even work.
I believe you can definitely make it work, but there's a lot of other things that you lose by doing this — anything from the kind of culture that you want to keep within the company, to it's going to be harder with ownership.
Or will you choose to believe that you, as an artist, are powerful, with the skills, the mind, and the message for producing great work, the kind of work that makes you a leader of the creative culture we can become?
I've just always had a kind of hunger to take the initiative and work somewhere where both the clients and the culture are inspiring.
This exhibition is the first of its kind to explore how shared values and interests have inspired artists from different cultures and times to create distinctive, powerful works that speak to their experience of the West as both a destination and a home.
Touching on themes of gender and sexuality, drugs and addiction, youth culture and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20
Touching on themes of gender and sexuality, drugs and addiction, youth culture and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950's to the present day, including work by Larry Clark.
His poetically charged works, often approaching a kind of sensual or perceptual riddles or revelations, involves issues regarding the most fundamental existence and meaning of images in human culture — images and memory, images and identity, images and absence or death.
Banks's work seemed to me to be a logical step forward historically for her position — it spoke to me as both formal sculpture engaging with the tradition of minimalism, but also as work that dealt with this kind of criminal culture.
Alex Da Corte's wonderfully perverse photographic works take the kind of deadpan aesthetic perfected by Elad Lassry and Roe Ethridge and drag it through the looking glass into a strange new synthetic realm of product - pushing, memes, pop culture, and contemporary design.
He explains, «Constellations are resolutely political insofar as these works advocate for a certain kind of humanity at the very moment that that culture was being destroyed, those people were being destroyed.
Beyond shedding valuable light on the genesis and cross-pollination of Pettibon's thematic interests, this catalogue is the first to tackle the artist's work as a whole — as a kind of hive mind of American culture whose various branches constantly address and reinterpret one another.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
It was the kind of work that would have irritated the former culture minister, Kim Howells, who six years ago labelled the Turner prize «conceptual bullshit».
They — along with many other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are vernacular cosmopolitans of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms of life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world of any single culture or language.
Is that the kind of culture and meaning we want to be working towards?
His work counters, both in process and documentation, the kind of quickly digested media that permeates contemporary culture.
From the famous «Erased de Kooning Drawing,» in which he both puckishly defied and meticulously paid tribute to his abstract expressionist contemporary, to his performance work with Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Trisha Brown and others, to his globe - spanning Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, which propagated new work with artists, poets and ordinary people in 10 countries, Rauschenberg was engaged in a kind of perpetual conversation.
Nevertheless, Mike Kelley tells Storr, «I think New York has a huge investment in the heroic tradition, because of the New York School and because of the politicization of that kind of work as a standard bearer for American culture.
In Stein's telling, he does emerge as a kind of flawed and accidental holy man — a bungling missionary, set against an increasingly money - bloated art culture, who believed deeply in the work artists do.
In poetry that wittily probes contemporary life and culture, Tony Hoagland «ranges thrillingly across manners, morals, sexual doings, kinds of speech both lyrical and candid, intimate as well as wild,» stated the American Academy of Arts and Letters in a citation honoring his body of work.
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