[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_image image=”2469″ size=”theme-large” tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][vc_column_text tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Minimalism in the arts began in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement includeDonald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of Modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract expressionism and a bridge to Postminimal art practices.[/vc_column_text][ish_separator color=”color13″ type=”thin” tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Where to start[/ish_headline][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Minimalism in music features repetition and iteration such as those of the compositions of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams. Minimalist compositions are sometimes known as systems music. The term “minimalist” often colloquially refers to anything that is spare or stripped to its essentials.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ish_skills skill_color=”color5″ text_color=”color1″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][ish_skill percent=”86″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Clean[/ish_skill][ish_skill percent=”65″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Decent[/ish_skill][/ish_skills][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ish_separator color=”color13″ type=”thin” tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ish_skills skill_color=”color5″ text_color=”color1″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][ish_skill percent=”86″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Clean[/ish_skill][ish_skill percent=”65″ tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]Decent[/ish_skill][/ish_skills][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]It has also been used to describe the plays andnovels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and the automobile designs of Colin Chapman. The word was first used in English in the early 20th century to describe “a 1913 composition by the Russian painter Kasimir Malevich of a black square on a white ground”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ish_separator color=”color13″ type=”thin” tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″][ish_embed tooltip_color=”color1″ tooltip_text_color=”color3″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0dTdJTHTIk[/ish_embed][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Time Management
HAVE A BREAK
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_blog_media tooltip_color=”color1″][vc_column_text]Find yourself time to rest. In order to increase your productivity you need to be relaxed and in a good mood. People are often afraid to just stop and rest for a while between their daily tasks. This is however counterproductive and increases the stress which ends up with a decrease in productivity.[/vc_column_text][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ color=”color5″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″]Stress Management Programs[/ish_headline][vc_column_text]Many businesses today have begun to use stress management programs for employees who are having trouble adapting to stress at the workplace or at home. Many people have spill over stress from home into their working environment. There are a couple of ways businesses today try to alleviate stress on their employees. One way is individual intervention. This starts off by monitoring the stressors in the individual. After monitoring what causes the stress, next is attacking that stressor and trying to figure out ways to alleviate them in any way. Developing social support is vital in individual intervention, being with others to help you cope has proven to be a very effective way to avoid stress. Avoiding the stressors all together is the best possible way to get rid of stress but that is very difficult to do in the workplace. Changing behavioral patterns, may in turn, help reduce some of the stress that is put on at work as well.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″ align=”center”][ish_svg_icon icon=”path_plugin/beautiful-flat-icons/flag.svg” type=”simple” color=”color1″ size=”90″ tooltip_color=”color1″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Employee assistance programs can include in-house counseling programs on managing stress. Evaluative research has been conducted on EAPs that teach individual stress control and inoculation techniques such as relaxation, biofeedback, and cognitive restructuring. Studies show that these programs can reduce the level of physiological arousal associated with high stress. Participants who master behavioral and cognitive stress-relief techniques report less tension, fewer sleep disturbances, and an improved ability to cope with workplace stressors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Another way of reducing stress at work is by simply changing the workload for an employee. Some may be too overwhelmed that they have so much work to get done, or some also may have such little work that they are not sure what to do with themselves at work. Improving communications between employees also sounds like a simple approach, but it is very effective for helping reduce stress. Sometimes making the employee feel like they are a bigger part of the company, such as giving them a voice in bigger situations shows that you trust them and value their opinion. Having all the employees mesh well together is a very underlying factor which can take away much of workplace stress. If employees fit well together and feed off of each other, the chances of lots of stress is very minimal. Lastly, changing the physical qualities of the workplace may reduce stress. Changing things such as the lighting, air temperature, odor, and up to date technology.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″ align=”center”][ish_svg_icon icon=”path_plugin/smallicons/mountain.svg” type=”simple” color=”color1″ size=”90″ tooltip_color=”color1″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″ align=”center”][ish_svg_icon icon=”path_plugin/beautiful-flat-icons/trophy.svg” type=”simple” color=”color1″ size=”90″ tooltip_color=”color1″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Intervention is broken down into three steps: primary, secondary, tertiary. Primary deals with eliminating the stressors all together. Secondary deals with detecting stress and figuring out ways to cope with it and improving stress management skills. Finally, tertiary deals with recovery and rehabbing the stress all together. These three steps are usually the most effective way to deal with stress not just in the workplace, but overall.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ color=”color5″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″]Stress Research[/ish_headline][vc_column_text]A study was done on the stress levels in general practitioners and hospital consultants in 1994. Over 500 medical employees participated in this study done by Dr. R.P Caplan. These results showed that 47% of the workers scored high on their questionnaire for high levels of stress. 27% of the general practitioners even scored to be very depressed. These numbers came to a surprise to Dr. Caplan and it showed how alarming the large number of medical workers become stressed out because of their jobs. Managers stress levels were not as high as the actual practitioners themselves. An eye opening statistic showed that nearly 54% of workers suffered from anxiety while being in the hospital. Although this was a small sample size for hospitals around the world, Caplan feels this trend is probably fairly accurate across the majority of hospitals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
BE PRODUCTIVE, WORK REMOTELY
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″ color=”color10″]Working remotely increases productivity![/ish_headline][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]
Economic well-being is created in a production process, meaning all economic activities that aim directly or indirectly to satisfy human needs. The degree to which the needs are satisfied is often accepted as a measure of economic well-being.
The satisfaction of needs originates from the use of the commodities which are produced. The need satisfaction increases when the quality-price-ratio of the commodities improves and more satisfaction is achieved at less cost. Improving the quality-price-ratio of commodities is to a producer an essential way to enhance the production performance but this kind of gains distributed to customers cannot be measured with production data.
Economic well-being also increases due to the growth of incomes that are gained from the growing and more efficient production. The most important forms of production are market production, public production and production in households. In order to understand the origin of the economic well-being we must understand these three processes. All of them have production functions of their own which interact with each other. Market production is the prime source of economic well-being.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Productivity is created in the real process, productivity gains are distributed in the income distribution process and these two processes constitute the production process. The production process and its sub-processes, the real process and income distribution process occur simultaneously, and only the production process is identifiable and measurable by the traditional accounting practices. The real process and income distribution process can be identified and measured by extra calculation, and this is why they need to be analysed separately in order to understand the logic of production performance.
Real process generates the production output from input, and it can be described by means of the production function. It refers to a series of events in production in which production inputs of different quality and quantity are combined into products of different quality and quantity. Products can be physical goods, immaterial services and most often combinations of both. The characteristics created into the product by the producer imply surplus value to the consumer, and on the basis of the price this value is shared by the consumer and the producer in the marketplace. This is the mechanism through which surplus value originates to the consumer and the producer likewise. It is worth noting that surplus values to customers cannot be measured from any production data. Instead the surplus value to a producer can be measured. It can be expressed both in terms of nominal and real values. The real surplus value to the producer is an outcome of the real process, real income, and measured proportionally it means productivity. Follow the 3 easy steps:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The production process consists of the real process and the income distribution process. A result and a criterion of success of the owner is profitability. The profitability of production is the share of the real process result the owner has been able to keep to himself in the income distribution process. Factors describing the production process are the components of profitability, i.e., returns and costs. They differ from the factors of the real process in that the components of profitability are given at nominal prices whereas in the real process the factors are at periodically fixed prices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row tooltip_color=”color1″][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″ color=”color10″]TEDx Talk about productivity![/ish_headline][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][ish_embed tooltip_color=”color1″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxhjDPKfbY[/ish_embed][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]About TEDx:
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized
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Editor — Jacqueline Legazcue
Camera crew — Jacqueline Legazcue, Sam Jones, and Ted Neckar[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][ish_headline tag_size=”h3″ icon_align=”left” tag=”h” tooltip_color=”color1″ color=”color10″]Find time to relax![/ish_headline][vc_column_text]
Monetary process refers to events related to financing the business. Market value process refers to a series of events in which investors determine the market value of the company in the investment markets.
Income distribution process of the production refers to a series of events in which the unit prices of constant-quality products and inputs alter causing a change in income distribution among those participating in the exchange. The magnitude of the change in income distribution is directly proportionate to the change in prices of the output and inputs and to their quantities. Productivity gains are distributed, for example, to customers as lower product sales prices or to staff as higher income pay.
Davis has deliberated the phenomenon of productivity, measurement of productivity, distribution of productivity gains, and how to measure such gains. He refers to an article suggesting that the measurement of productivity shall be developed so that it ”will indicate increases or decreases in the productivity of the company and also the distribution of the ’fruits of production’ among all parties at interest”. According to Davis, the price system is a mechanism through which productivity gains are distributed, and besides the business enterprise, receiving parties may consist of its customers, staff and the suppliers of production inputs. In this article, the concept of ”distribution of the fruits of production” by Davis is simply referred to as production income distribution or shorter still as distribution.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]