WA's Habitat Experience

by Jami Miedema On June 29, my coworkers and I had the privilege to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and help construct a home for a local Holland family. The single mother and her three teenage children were living in a house that could not accommodate the family...

What Makes a Company Unique?

by Jami Miedema Until learning about organizational culture in my management class, I did not know what it was, or how important it is in the workplace environment.  Organizational culture is a shared set of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, and work routines that...

300 Million: Good or Bad?

by Jami Miedema Recently, the U.S. population finally reached 300 million. While some might consider this a strain on our resources, others believe this growth is beneficial to our economy. Many countries overseas are struggling to find population-control strategies...

All About Attitude

by Jami Miedema I have always been the type of person to steer away from reading self-help and motivational books. I find their content not only unconvincing and unoriginal, but just plain corny. So it was to my surprise that just recently I read one from front to...

New and Improved Regulation?

by Jami Miedema The Department of Transportation has proposed a regulation which aims to change the standards of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) regulatory program. The standards would be increased, relative to the size of the truck as indicated by its...