Culture: a vehicle for economic development Cultural industries: Culture is a powerful global economic engine generating jobs and income with a value of US $1.3 trillion in 2005. Global cultural industries account for more than 7% g global GDP During the 1990s‚ the cultural industries grew at an annual rate twice that of service industries and four times that of manufacturing in OECD countries (2009 UWR). However‚ infrastructure investments are needed in the South to enhance and support cultural
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Core Competencies Core competencies are the essential capabilities that create a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. Based on experience‚ knowledge‚ and know-how‚ they are built up over time and cannot be easily imitated. For this reason‚ products and technologies are seldom core competencies. The advantage they provide is short-lived‚ and other companies can readily purchase‚ emulate‚ or improve upon them. Core competencies are more likely to be processes. Processes cut across functional
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and thus consumes large amounts of cash but because they have low markets shares they do not generate much cash 2. What are core competences? Core competences are critical capabilities to a business achieving competitive advantage. The starting point for analysing core competences is recognising that competition between businesses is as much a race for competence mastery as it is for market position and market power. Senior management cannot focus on all activities of a business and the competencies
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Manage Business Document Design and Development 1. Copy Right –You can not copy someone else’s document and use as your own‚ it can cause big fines and look bad for your company. Privacy Act – Confidentiality of the company Discrimination – if you put on a document asking if the person who is filling out the form is married‚ what there race and colour is‚ may offend people. 2. The purpose of relating organizational policy and procedure into the design and use as each company
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Cultural competence and ethical responsibility of counselors is an issue that holds increasing importance. To be both multicultural and ethical is increasingly challenging. The population of the United States is changing quickly from a predominately white Caucasian society to an ethnically diverse society`. The Hispanic population‚ which represented only 9% of the population in 1990‚ is projected to increase to about 25% of the population by 2050. The number of African Americans‚ Asian Americans/Pacific
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A core competency is a concept in management theory originally advocated by C. K. Prahalad‚ and Gary Hamel‚ two business book writers. In their view a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it‚ or its employees‚ works. It fulfills three key criteria: 1. It is not easy for competitors to imitate. 2. It can be re-used widely for many products and markets. 3. It must contribute to the end consumer’s experienced benefits. The importance of the
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Core Competencies South University Online NSG5000 Week 4 Assignment 2 Vicki Rostis September 12‚ 2014 Core Competencies Hamric‚ Hanson‚ O’Grady & Tracy (2014) define competencies as “a broad area of skillful performance.” Competencies include activities implemented by advanced practice nurses while providing direct patient care and the processes‚ knowledge and skills used in all aspects of advanced practice. There are seven core competencies associated with the advanced practice registered
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Research Design Content analysis is a process in which narrative data are divided into units of analysis to examine the contents of a particular body of material for the purpose of identifying patterns‚ themes or biases (Leedy and Ormrod‚ (2005). Further‚ qualitative content analysis has been defined in other ways such as: • “a research method for the subjective interpretation of the content of text or [narrative] data through the systematic classification process of coding and identifying
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It is nearly absurd to perceive how many illegal immigrants are driving around the United States without a driver’s license. Illegal immigration has been a debatable topic in the United States. Moreover getting a drivers license is not as easy as in other countries for illegal immigrants. Regardless of their status‚ people‚ should be competent to obtain a drivers license‚ generating a reduction in hit-and-run accidents‚ beneficial law enforcement’s‚ as well as safer roads for the nations brighter
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Cultural Competence Care and Lack of Communication Swasti Lewis NUR/531 March 23‚ 2015 Instructor Annette Marget “Hola‚ coma esta‚ Me llamo Swasti Lewis‚ Yo soy enfermera por la noche”‚ this statement translates to‚ “hello‚ how are you? My name is Swasti Lewis‚ I will be your nurse for tonight”. Language‚ a beautiful notion in life defining people by their origins‚ culture and countries. Language means‚ “the words‚ their pronunciation‚ and the methods of combining them used and understood
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