Shelley Griffiths- 2015. Unit 14 Understanding the Principles and Practices of Assessment 1. Understand the principles and requirements of assessment 1.1. Explain the function of assessment in learning and development The function of assessment in learning and development is to provide a means of measuring delegate’s progress. I can carry out assessment in my courses by checks throughout the course (formative)‚ testing against their previous knowledge (impassive)‚ and at the end of the course (summative)
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Functions of Management or Management Functions Management consists of the functions given below. It is based on Henri Fayol’s thinking on the functions of management. 1. Planning: generating plans of action for immediate‚ short term‚ medium term and long term periods. 2. Organizing: organizing the resources‚ particularly human resources‚ in the best possible manner. 3. Staffing: positioning right people right jobs at right time. 4. Directing (includes leading‚ motivating‚ communicating
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Max Webber and Henri Fayol were both key figures of the 20th century and had similar ideas of administrative management theories. Both took the scientific theory that was founded by Frederick Taylor and improved it in their own way. Each one also had different strategies to achieve the same goals. They both were able to provide appropriate sets of guidelines that were very clear. These are guidelines that managers can use to create a work setting that is efficient and effective and in a way that
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Henri Fayol or Henry Mintzberg; Management‚ management today is one of the subjects with the most widely branched areas. Management is an area under discussion and criticised since many years before till today by many contributors and authors. There have been developed many ideas and notions regarding the right way to manage and been successful manager. Some of the most important contributors are Henri Fayol and Henry Mintzberg with two different views but‚ in the same time very similar
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to the Best Explanation is a type of abductive reasoning. In making this inference one infers‚ from the fact that a certain hypothesis would explain the evidence‚ to the truth of that hypothesis. In general‚ there will be multiple different hypotheses that might explain the evidence‚ so one must be able to decide which one is the correct hypothesis. One of the classic examples is how to explain wet grass. If the grass is wet‚ it probably rained. The Inference of the Best Explanation‚ one does not
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Henri Fayol: Management Principals through Experience Introduction While the subject of management has proven a popular topic‚ especially during the last 25 years‚ the subject is certainly not exclusive to latter part of the 20th century (Donkin‚ 1998). Henri Fayol‚ a turn-of-the-century French mining engineer and eventual management executive is often credited with becoming one of the first to develop and write about the now popular topic. “Dubbed the father of modern operational-management
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Henri Fayol vs. Henry Mintzberg. Functions vs. roles Henri Fayol and Henry Mintzberg are “two sides of the one coin”. Each man has his own opinion on what the manager does. Fayol has his “five functions” and Mintzberg has his “roles of management”. In this essay I will discuss both men’s opinions and try to come to a conclusion on which I think is better. Henri Fayol‚ a French management theorist and managing director of a French mining company‚ came up with the five functions
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Henri Fayol was born in Istanbul in 1841.When he was 19‚he begun working as an engineer at a large mining company in France. He eventually became the director‚ at a time when mining company employed more than 1‚000 people. Through the years‚fayol began to develop what he considered to be the 14 most important principles of management.essentially‚these explained how manager should organize and Interact with staff. In 1916‚two years before he stepped down as director‚he published his “14 principle
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There are many sociological explanations for female inequality in society. Inequality is where something/ someone is seen as not equal compared to something else. For example men have more opportunities than women in life‚ suggesting females suffer huge inequality in many factors of life. Firstly‚ Anne Oakley speaks about how women suffer inequalities in the work place. Oakley notes that after the industrial revolution in Britain acts were passed to limit women working; in 1851 one in four married
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Revised Behavior Explanations Patricia Landeros Psychology 100 TTh 11:00-12:15PM April 7‚ 2011 BEHAVIOR EXPLANATION # 1 1. Behavior Observation/Description (5pts) One hot September day at around one o’clock‚ my boyfriend‚ Jonathan and I were strolling around the city of Downey‚ searching for a delicious place to have lunch. We then made the decision to grub at In n’ Out. As we walked down Firestone‚ I noticed an elderly man attempting to illegally cross the street. I was beginning to
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