A new month coming

My life was so hard in this February. I can't remember anything particularly bad. Just some unlucky things came one to another. And then lose motivation completely. I was trying control myself and motivate myself, but still ......
Next month I will move to a new host family and it sounds good. So it's good news for me, and I will start doing work, and trying to get A in each subject.
I really want to go to top university, so do as I say is the most important thing.

Are motivational theorists still relevant?

To motivate employee is very important to a company. Because of the recession the unemployment is increasing. Many companies cut jobs to reduce costs. So how to motivate employees and increase productivity is very important. So I think motivational theorists are still very useful and it’s necessary to learn it. There are many famous theorists such as Taylor Hertzberg, Mayo, Maslow, Vroom and McGregor. In different situation we should use different way to motivate people. For example, after you cut many jobs in company, employees will under pressure and afraid to loss job(Hertzberg demotivate - pressure). If some people work for money, pay more money is a good way to motivate them(Taylor payment buy results).
In a word, motivational theorists are still useful and helpful for management. The point is if we can use it correctly.

Failure of Nissan

As recession getting worse, many companies make less profit than before. Nissan which is one of the biggest car companies in Japan will cut about 20,000 jobs because its sales keep going down. Net loss for the October-December period amounted to 83.2 billion yen ($904 million), compared with net income of 132.2 billion yen in the year-earlier period. Revenue dropped 34% to 1.817 trillion yen. It expects a net annual profit of 160billion yen, down from 484bn yen a year earlier, and well short of its previous 340bn yen forecast. That’s what happening to this company now.
I think reasons why these happen to this company are:
1. Recession comes, people have lower income and they lose confidence.
2. Higher costs, the growth of wages and more expensive materials make costs going up.
3. Competition, demand of the market is going down, but there are still many competitors. The prices of cars are becoming cheaper. So it difficult to cut the price when costs going up.
So I think, reduce the costs is the best way to survive. Cutting jobs is a good idea, but not too much so that can make sure the company have enough productivity to achieve the market. And keep some jobs is also good for society.
Relocation is another idea, now many big companies are changing place of factories. They are more likely to move to developing countries because labour, land and materials are cheaper there.
Maybe they can find out new product. Such as bike, motorcycle.
Here is some news for you to have a look.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7701398.stm
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nissan-may-forecast-annual-loss/story.aspx?guid=%7B620762B0-E3C4-4E80-A9A1-365B71372E6C%7D&dist=msr_2

English Speaking Contest of national college students

Her speech is talking about protecting environment. She is a really good speaker, and she won the English Speaking Contest.

Wednesday market and Cover market

Today, we visited two markets Wednesday market and Cover market.

Wednesday market is an open market which can buy fruits, vegetables, meet, food, shoes, clothes and so on. Wednesday market is not such a big market and also the quality of products are low. But compared with supermarkers and shops the price is much lower. But I think the quality of fruits are same. Cover market is a market which is inside. Compared with Wednesday market the quality of products in cover market are higher, however the price are little bit higher. Both market don't have a lot of customers, maybe it's because of it's wednesday and it's day time. People got to work at this time. But for cover market, it opens everyday. But wednesday market only open on wednesday, so this is a weedness of this market. And I think people are more likely to by products in cover market, because the quality of products in cover market are higher then wednesday market and also it's cheaper then supermarket. Because wednesday is a open market and it sells food, but it looks not very clean so maybe customers will think about their health so maybe they prefer cover market.

As recession getting worse, people will more likely to go shopping in market which have cheaper products. So this kind of plece is a good place.

ways to use bricks

1.build houses
2.make road
3.use it to fight
4.use it to protect myself when someone attack me
5.when you tired, you can sit on it
6.use it to make a pool
7.use it as a pen, to write on floor when the floor is cement
8.use it to make a parterre
9.to keep a door open
10.to sharpen knifes
11.make it as a sculpture
12.trip someone
13.break nuts
14.use it as dumbbells
15.hit on your head when you feel bad
16.train kung fu
17.make it as an ax
18.use it to kill animals like hunting
19.use it to make BBQ
20.use it to make a bed
21.use it to make a bowl
22.use it in war to attack, such as sling
23.stand on it, you can see further
24.stand on it, you can get something high
25.if you drop the ball in a lake, throw them in lake, let the ball come to bank
26.hit nail into wood
27.after raining, there are some ponds on road, use bricks to pass ponds
28.use it to make wall
29.use them to make a stick stand straight
30.use it as a target