ALIENATION THEME IN ROHINTON MISTRY’S TALES FROM FIROZSHA BAAG Rohinton Mistry is a Parsi Zoroastrian and as a person whose ancestors were forced into exile by the Islamic conquest of Iran‚ he was in Diaspora even in India. Like other Parsi writers‚ his writing is informed by this experience of double displacement as a recurrent theme in his literary works. Rohinton’s historical situation involves construction of new identity in the nation to which he has migrated and a complex relationship with
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October 04‚ 2010 Citibank: Performance Evaluation In 1996‚ Citibank was an emergent banking institution attempting to increase its market share in the competitive Los Angeles area. In order to do so‚ the bank’s strategy was to focus slightly less on their financial growth‚ and much more on providing “a high level of service to its customers”. Management viewed this paradigm shift as “critical to the long term success of the franchise”. To implement these changes‚ a new Citibank employee performance
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I. Critical evaluation of Citibank performance evaluation form: Citibank corporate strategy: focused on combining excellent customer service strategy along with relationship banking to build a profitable competitive franchise. Customers were offered the convenience of choosing the type of service delivery‚ whether personal or remote. But as high end customers become more and more valuable to the bank‚ their service expectations also went up. Increased service demands included broad array of financial
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Harvard Business School 9-198-048 Rev. October 14‚ 1999 Citibank: Performance Evaluation Frits Seegers‚ President of Citibank California‚ was meeting with his management team to review the performance evaluation and bonus decisions for the California branch managers. James McGaran’s performance evaluation was next. Frits felt uneasy about this one. McGaran was manager of the most important branch in the Los Angeles area‚ and his financials were impressive. A year ago he would have
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it is fair. Particularly scorecard template is clear and easy to understand. 7 specific blocks of targets (financial‚ strategy‚ customer satisfaction‚ control‚ people‚ standards and finally overall evaluation) shows what is most important for Citibank in this year. Except figures and data (Key Performance Indicators – KPIs) there is also a place for comments and opinions which is very important to evaluate managers and employees. In addition to 4 quarterly performance assessments McGaran has
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physical and digital world. One recent development that has the capability of implementing a way society can interact with both the world of information and physical world is the “SixthSense” project. The SixthSense project is an idea started by Pranav Mistry and his associates from the Fluid Interfaces Group based out of the MIT Media lab. This organization has many projects which are all founded on a few common goals. This goal can come to fruition by focusing on innovations. These Innovations include
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Abstract: This paper explains about the sixth sense technology.it’s construction ‚ advantages‚applications ‚cost and area where it it used. It was developed by pranav mistry‚a mit student.this controls multiple devices. The input is taken and it is send to the sensors .The sensors processes the data and performs the specified process like taking photos or watching videos or browsing internet. The colour markers is very useful in taking photos.The hand movements are saved and the data is sent
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Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. New York: Penguin. Cirlot‚ J.E.(1962) A Dictionary of Symbols. Trans. Jack Sage. New York: Philosophical Library. P.328. Harrison‚ R.P. (1992) Forests: the Shadow of Civilization. London: University of Chicago Press. Mistry‚ Rohinton (1996) A Fine Balance. Great Britain: Faber and Faber. Thoreau‚ Henry D (1854‚1982) Walden. India: Oxford University Press.
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1. Introduction As human beings we are most concerned about physical and digital information. We are growing up with the physical objects around us. We are really fond of interacting with physical objects instead of computing devices. Sixth Sense Technology is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cell phone which acts as the computer and connected to the Cloud‚ all the information stored on the web [4].Before implementing the sixth sense technology the inventor tried to combine the physical
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Citibank: The Confia Acquisition in Mexico Situation Analysis Citibank is looking to expand their reach within the banking world. They had an opportunity to acquire Confia a Mexican bank. Many Mexican banks are having problems due to the lack of money and resources the Mexican people have to invest in the banks. Citibank does much research while deciding whether to follow through with the deal. At the very end of the purchasing process an undiscovered threat is exposed to Citibank that Confia
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