am going to critic‚ evaluate and analyse direct payments and the implications they have had on social work practice. The Direct Payments Act 1996 enabled local authorities to offer cash in lieu of social services. They were introduced for adults of working age in April 2007 and extended to include older disabled people in 2000. Since April 2001 direct payments have also been available to parents of disabled children‚ 16 and 17 years and carers. Direct Payments have also been extended to people
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Competitive Analysis‚ ING Direct. Competitor analysis is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. Porter (1980‚ 1998) argued that most firms do not conduct this type of analysis systematically enough. Instead‚ many enterprises operate on what he calls “informal impressions‚ conjectures‚ and intuition gained through the tidbits of information about competitors every manager continually receives.” ING’s analysis of its competitors was that they were old
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“A firm that already has sustained competitive advantage in its domestic market may not have the same advantage in an overseas market. Discuss the issues that this creates for a firm‚ and how it might exploit its resource advantages to secure successful market entry and create competitive advantage in a new overseas market.” With the global trade network more integrated‚ according to Pearce and Robinson (2009)‚ firms tend to enter foreign market to gain more profit due to the maturity of domestic
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of rules and regulations that had been levied on the foreign direct investment in India‚ by the Indian government. One of such sectors of the Indian economy‚ that has seen a sudden booming phase of prosperity and sustained growth‚ owing to these factors is the real estate as well as the construction business in India. It was the year of 2005‚ when the Indian Central government finally realized the economic prosperity that foreign direct investment in India would bring about. Thus‚ in an effort to
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The purpose of nonviolent direct action is to create a situation in which a community is forced to face a problem and come to common ground with the opposition. This was showcased in Birmingham Alabama when the local civil rights groups and merchants negotiated to remove biased signs on windows and equal treatment in the stores. Through this nonviolent action the local civil rights groups thought they had won a moral victory over the merchants. However when the signs were only temporarily removed
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may be faced with direct and indirect power blocks. The direct power blocks are actions that inhibit you from getting what you need to be successful or basic needs. They occur when negative valuations are applied directly by agents of our major social institutions. For example‚ an individual could be discriminated by their own family because they have a different skin tone than the rest of the family. Racism‚ sexism and classism are just a few examples of direct power blocks. Direct power blocks limit
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Coursework 2 In this coursework I will be discussing the statement below with reference to Smith et al’s (2008) with an analytic study of NHS Direct call centre‚ a telephone health helpline in England. ‘The development of advanced IT-based services depends not on technology itself‚ but on particular choices about work organization and the empowerment of front line staff’… Technology has advanced ever so much in the past 100 years in different aspects of life; communication is one of the biggest
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The word democracy makes me depict a direct democracy‚ when thinking of a direct democracy I vividly envision an enormous mass of people‚ all expressing their opinions and beliefs without worries. A direct democracy is where members of the community vote on all issues‚ rather than a group of officials voting in their place. The assembly of people listening have diverse ethnic backgrounds‚ religion‚ social class‚ and occupation‚ all of these people are crowding around a tiny wooden podium in the center
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES – LOS BANOS College of Economics and Management Graduate School Management 213 Activity-Based-Costing Prepared by: Mr. Sergs F. Sancon JAVA SOURCE INC.‚ (JSI) Java Source Inc. (JSI)‚ is a processor and distributor of a variety of blends of coffee. The company buys coffee beans from around the world and roasts‚ blends‚ and packages them for resale. JSI offers a large variety of different coffees that
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are many distinct appropriate and beneficial roles of direct service‚ in addition to its limitations and challenges. Servant leadership
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