NUS rolls out “grade-free” system for its freshmen By Ong Hwee Hwee‚ The Straits Times‚ 23 January 2014 In this article‚ the author addresses the issue of having a grading system in the National University of Singapore (NUS) where alphabetical grades will not be given anymore; instead‚ the only “grades” given will be a distinction‚ pass‚ or fail. A similar approach has been taken by the Singapore University of Technology and Design‚ and in certain modules in Nanyang Technological University and
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Article Review – Information Technology and The Changing Workplace in Canada By Abdul Asif 300817244 Submitted to: Prof. Philip Alalibo GNED 219-071 Winter 2015 The article‚ Information Technology and The Changing Workplace in Canada‚ was written by Saeed Moshiri. The author’s main position which is outlined by the article is “recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have had vivid effects on both individual and workplace performance” (Moshiri‚ 2009).
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Article Review HRM 599-Benefits The article I have researched for this article review was written according to the New York Times was about “how a small business owners have problems with unemployment claims and one owner who was surprised when an unemployment claim came across her desk by an employee who had quit more than a year before (Mount‚ 2011)”. Her company who had hired the employee after the employee’s company had went out of business then that owner rehired the
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Running head: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC The relationship between instrumental music participation and standardized assessment achievement of middle school students: Article review assignment Md Emtiaz Rony Kent State University Previous researches on understanding higher order brain functioning based on music as a main effect‚ have been explored a possible relationship between the area of a brain that stimulated by music and the same area that controls spatial reasoning
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White Privilege Article Review Although the conditions that Peggy McIntosh writes about in her article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” are not as present as they were in the past and the United States has been moving away from race being and identifying factor of a person‚ RACISM is still a modern issue in the US. I would say about seventy percent of what is on that list still is in effect today. Being Latino has proved this to me. Living in specific areas or cities where youth
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1.0 INTRODUCTION‚ BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE. Title of this article is Managing Stress in Projects Using Coaching Leadership Tools. This article is about How to manage stress for project manager using coaching skills. As a project manager there a lot of pressure they need to handle. They need to deal with a client and their workers. Stress is an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to a person’s wellbeing (McShane and Glinow‚2013). Every project
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Management a true profession is an interesting article. It is written by two authors‚ Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Rakesh Khurana is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston while Nitin Nohria is also a professor of business administration and senior associate dean and director of faculty development at Harvard Business School. Both authors have written informative books on the subject of business. The purpose of this article is about revolutionizing the training
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Article review by Dawn Drake – Writing sample 5/2008 dawn.drake@yahoo.com Lieff‚ J. (1982). Eight reasons why doctors fear the elderly‚ chronic illness‚ and death. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology‚ 14(1)‚ 47-60. Jonathan Lieff‚ author of this article‚ holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical College‚ and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry (Ages Health Services Inc.‚ 1996). When the article was published in 1982‚ Lieff had developed services
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they will have strong effects. By Maureen Glabman Contributing Editor In 1995‚ Harvard business school professors Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower put “disruptive technologies” in the business lexicon by introducing the term in a seminal article in the school’s journal. The phrase described what happened in 1960‚ for example‚ when an unknown company‚ Sony‚ began selling an affordable transistor television that eventually replaced RCA’s vacuum tube. Soon it became apparent the transistor
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a. Why is corporate finance important to all managers? Answer: Corporate finance provides the skills managers need to: (1) identify and select the corporate strategies and individual projects that add value to their firm; and (2) forecast the funding requirements of their company‚ and devise strategies for acquiring those funds. b. Describe the organizational forms a company might have as it evolves from a start-up to a major corporation. List the advantages and disadvantages of each form
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