Printed in Great Britain 0889-4906/98 $19.00+0.00 PII: S0889-4906(97)00012-4 A Cross-cultural Comparison of Letters of Recommendation Kristen Precht Abstract--Letters of recommendation (LRs) from different countries are as individual as the local academic cultures from which they arise. Distinct regional patterns emerged in this comparative study of letters of recommendation from the United States‚ United Kingdom‚ Germany‚ and Eastern Europe. Two types of analysis were performed: first‚ a quantitative
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SERVICE QUALITY PERCEPTIONS IN FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS IN PAKISTAN Abstract People spend regularly on food items throughout the world and they prefer different tastes as in their cultures‚ the people of south Asia usually love spicy foods but many fast food and Chinese restaurants have also developed their business in the region providing high quality foods and developing their brands in the region. There are many fast food restaurants in Pakistan facilitating their customers with variety of
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IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION Globalization is a phenomenon which has become common and already attracted broad attention in the world in recent years. It offers extensive opportunities for every country in the world to develop their economy‚ improve their regime‚ enrich their culture‚ and update their technology and so forth. Education is undergoing constant changes under the effects of globalization. The effects of globalization on education bring rapid developments in technology
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Running head: BUSINESS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BIG DRIVE AUTO Business Recommendations for Big Drive Auto Assignment #4 Learning Team B ECO/561 October 4‚ 2010 Business Recommendations for Big Drive Auto Economic influences play a major role in the success of a company especially when consumers are hesitant on spending or investing their disposable income or have many choices of who they will purchase from. Demand shifts influence profitability‚ which has a direct effect on the company’s ability
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Respond/reflect on the ten recommendations that the presenter makes. Celeste Headlee made many good points about how today society do not communicate with each other as often as we should without any conflict. And when we do we are distracted by our phone so we are more comfortable with texting people then having a face to face conversation. The ten recommendations that Celeste Headlee makes on how to have a Good Conversation I believe to be very useful. The first recommendation was don’t multitask because
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RECOMMENDATION Our university must have good coordination for some companies that accept On-The-Job Training inside their company. The university should provide more budgets and time given to the OJT coordinator and should assign not only one OJT coordinator to have the best monitoring of the training of the students are taking especially to those students who chose to do their training in far places like Baguio City‚ Manila and others. For me‚ the company is a good training ground. Because
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BUSINESS STRATEGY ALTERNATIVES & RECOMMENDATIONS: Airbus has become a leader in commercial aircraft manufacturing relying heavily on an integrated position of low-cost leadership and technology-focused differentiation. Boeing‚ their major competitor‚ has a position in the market that has consistently eroded while maintaining an integrated position of brand value differentiation and long term cost reduction through acquisition and economies of scale. In this section‚ we will discuss two main ideas:
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Demographic profile of respondents Table 1 Demographic profile of respondents Sex (n=45) Age (n=45) Education (n=45) Male 51.1% Female 48.9% 60 years 6.7% Uneducated 4.4% Primary‚ middle‚ high school graduate 6.7% Collage graduate 13.3% University graduate 53.3% Advanced degree 22.2% Monthly income (n=45) Length of Beijing (n=45) 10001 6.7% >50000 2.2% 10 years 8.9% >20 years 37.8% N stand for number
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Executive Summary In response to growing problems relating to alcohol on the Midwest University campus‚ President Harrison has appointed the Alcohol Awareness Task Force—made up of students—to make a recommendation. The task force looked at many issues surrounding alcohol use including health concerns‚ increased incidents of violence‚ liability‚ and the effects of alcohol on the body and decision-making. After considering the issues‚ the task force proposes that the University put together a larger
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are able to sell in order to increase earning. Distributors hold the excessive amount of product. The conflict of the self-interest is the one of the issue that will be arise as the CEO of the company has the share in Biovail Corporation. Recommendation Have the code of ethics. Biovail Corporation should have the code of ethics in it management. In calculating revenue‚ FOB structure of the product should have been understood in the deep. The overestimated of the product quantity should be
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