What challenges and opportunities do the key changes in demographic diversity in the labour market over the last fifty years provide organisations with? What broad approaches and strategies can organisations apply to minimise the challenges and maximise the opportunities? Name：WENLU YANG Tutor： AGENIESZKA Course：Managing Equality and Diversity Pin number：P12008122 Date：6th 1.0 Introduction 1 The last fifty years has witnessed significant changes in demographic diversity in the labour
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Why is it difficult to decide how many speakers of English there are around the world today? Introduction A language is a socio-cultural aspect of any given society. It is important to note that languages tend to evolve thereby making it impossible to establish their evolutionary paths and developments. As a result‚ there have been enormous challenges in the attempt to establish the historical path of such languages. With English language‚ the situation becomes even worse simply because it is widely
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English is spoken as an official language in the world. Therefore‚ many international students come to America to study English. Because Hawaii does not have a serious racism problem‚ many Asians choose Hawaii for study abroad. Kapiolani Community College has many international students. Those international students have to take the same courses as native English speakers to get a college degree. International students should get some advantages because they are ESL students. However‚ some teachers
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Native speakers of English are a speaker who used English as a first language or mother tongue. Usually native speakers of English are people from English-speaking countries like the USA‚ Great Britain‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ Ireland‚ etc. Anyone may acquire the native speaker status by virtue of being just as proficient as a genetic native speaker of a language. In Singapore‚ where English has been the medium of instruction since 1987 and where‚ by now‚ there are many users of English whose proficiency
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PROBLEMS OF PRONOUNCIATION FOR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER WHAT IS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER? Non-native English speaker result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native users of any language tend to carry the intonation‚ phonological processes and pronunciation rules from their mother tongue into their English speech. They may also create innovative pronunciations for English sounds not found in the speaker’s first language. Current English speech recognition systems are commonly
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Challenge or Opportunity Statement People are‚ undoubtedly the best resources of an organization. Sourcing the best people from the industry has become the top most priority of the organizations today. In such a competitive scenario‚ talent management has become the key strategy to identify and filling the skill gap in a company by recruiting the high-worth individuals from the industry. It is a never-ending process that starts from targeting people. The process regulates the entry and exit of talented
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Challenges and Opportunities Grace Robinson Challenges and Opportunities Today’s society and its leaders are currently being plagued by economical and structural issues. As a result‚ many organizations‚ institutions and high powered leaders are being forced to make a well needed change in their foundational principles in order to address the issues on hand. Many of these individuals and organizations have arrived at the realization that leadership does not lie solely on one’s ability to
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Poverty in the United States Liberty University Introduction to Human Services HSER 500 Dr. Alicia Akins Abstract Poverty is one of the most serious issues in the United States today. Those that are affected were once the minority of society is now emerging as the majority. The new faces of poverty would surprise many people. It is no longer the face of the pleading face of a middle-aged man on a city street holding up a sign that says “Hungry‚ Need Help.”‚ or the face of a young child
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greatest advances come from science‚ engineering‚ technology‚ and math (STEM) fields. It would make sense that people of all genders should share in these triumphs since boys and girls alike have equal education opportunities in the United States. The sad fact that girls fall short in STEM opportunities leads to questions; how can society remedy this? Studies show math and science fields typically favor men. Between 1998 and 2010‚ over half a million people took the gender-science IAT (implicit-association
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Non-native speakers of English (NNS) mean people who speak English not as their mother tongue‚ but serves as a useful lingua franca between ethnic and language groups. English is carried our predominantly in higher education‚ the legislature and judiciary‚ national commerce and so on. English was spread in Asia and Africa through colonization by Great Britain and the USA. Among the countries are India‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines‚ Kenya‚ Pakistan‚ Nigeria‚ etc. It is estimated that there are 150 million
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