importance of work placement as a part of higher education can not be disputed. A number of studies ( Bennett‚ Dunne & Carre‚ 2000; Arnold‚ Loan-Clarke‚ Harrington & Hart‚ 1999) have proved that skills gained at work placements are very important and sought after by employers. Students with work placement experience become more attractive as future employees. (Arnold et al.1999) However Crebert‚ Bates‚ Bell‚ Patrick & Cragnolili (2004) believe that higher education institutions should advertise work placements
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DRAFT Model Assignment Issued April 2010 OCR Level 3 Principal Learning in Society‚ Health and Development Unit F952: Personal and professional development in the work environment Please note: This OCR model assignment may be used to provide evidence for the unit identified above. Alternatively‚ centres may ‘tailor’ the assignment within permitted parameters (see ‘Notes for Teachers’). It is the centre’s responsibility to ensure that any adaptations made to this assignment allow learners
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Running head: PERSONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT PERSONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT Home Communication in the Virtual Workplace COM 470 GRETA DEININGER Aug 30‚ 2007 PERSONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT A company ’s ability to develop plans that can deliver strategic value effectively will latch on to a competitive advantage. The ability to plan is an important function of management in the 21st-century. All actions of management and a company ’s workforce must be geared toward accomplishing goals that encompasses
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Literature Review Work environment According to the business dictionary‚ the work environment includes the physical geographical location as well as the immediate surroundings of the workplace‚ such as a construction site or office building. There are typically other workplace factors relating to the place of employment like the standard of the air‚ noise level‚ and extra benefits and advantages of employment such as free child care or unlimited coffee‚ or adequate parking (Business Dictionary
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Women in the Work Environment If anyone plans to celebrate Equal Pay Day‚ they should understand that it is a travesty compared to what women actually have to face with in real life. It is true that society has improved the way it treats women overall. They are no longer limited to household work and have the right to vote. However‚ that does not stop society from using stereotypical ideas from an older and patriarchal system into the work environment‚ and indeed‚ everything in life. In the end
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contemporary issues associated with age‚ gender‚ ethnicity in the working environment; which will particularly incorporate a discussion of gender relations‚ stereotyping and sources of inequality. The purpose of this essay is to fundamentally consider how organisational culture‚ norms of work‚ stereotypes and so on may impact on the opportunities people have. I am going to focus on the inequalities and who does what sort of work in the general workforce and more particularly‚ on women’s roles. The given
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Providing a flexible work environment for employees benefits both the employee’s and employers. Flexibility creates a reduced stress environment‚ this increases productivity‚ loyalty and respect for the employer and management staff. It also allows the employees an opportunity to feel both respected and maintained‚ this increasing all-rounded improvement‚ it will also reduce the likely-hood of individuals resigning. Stress is an important part of the working environment‚ when individuals become
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The company that I am going to discuss in this case study is the IT firm ‘Microsoft’. Microsoft was originally founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. It is a public multinational corporation which is headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington in the USA. Its aims are to develop‚ manufacture‚ license and support a wide range of products and services that are related to computing through its various product divisions. Microsoft is an example of a well-known monopolistic power. A monopoly exists when
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Describe at least two benefits of using enterprise systems. More and more organizations are seeking to integrate the core functions of their business with technological advances. Enterprise systems facilitate this integration process through a single software architecture that links all aspects of business to function as one unit. Enterprise systems also commonly known as ES are comprehensive‚ large scale application-software packages‚ which use powers of present day information
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Work Environment Paper Good communication skills are imperative for organizations to carry out in an attempt to maintain outstanding performance from employees and management. Every workplace is unique in terms of their diversity profile therefore‚ is it vital for organization to create and execute creative communication methodologies that will enable organizations to develop a community rather than just your average run of the mill work environment. For example‚ active listening‚ collective goal
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