Unit 201 : Improving Productivity Using IT Unit Code : 201 Unit Code Reference : J/502/4156 QCF level : 2 Credit value : 4 Guided learning hours : 30 Unit Summary This unit is about the skills and knowledge needed by the IT User to plan and review their use of predefined or commonly used IT tools for activities that are at times non-routine or unfamiliar. As a result of reviewing their work‚ they will be able to identify and use automated methods or alternative ways of working
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Telecommuting Increases Productivity Telecommuting‚ also known as work-from-home‚ is a common practice among many business firms. In many articles‚ authors claim that telecommuting makes noticeable contribution to companies‚ increasing productivity by around 15%-50%. However‚ to some CEOs‚ telecommuting is not an attractive option. They think that most people exaggerate the significance of telecommuting because they worry about losing direct control over the employees. Actually‚ telecommuting can
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men; and 2) there has been a great decline in the stigma attached to single motherhood. The article also describes interesting demographic differences in this trend. Among mothers of all ages‚ 59 percent of births still occur within marriage‚ so the trend toward single motherhood is happening mostly in younger women. There are also huge racial and ethnic differences in this trend. While only 29% of all white births are to single mothers‚ the figure is 53% for Latinos and 73% for blacks.
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Describe and evaluate the multi store memory model Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968 suggested that memory was comprised of three separate stores - the Sensory Memory store‚ the Short-term Memory store‚ and the Long-term Memory store. Information from all around us enters the through the sensory memory and encoded through one of the 5 senses depending on the type of information. If attention is paid to this information it will enter short term memory which has a limited capacity of about 4 chunks of
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experience must be superior to that of the many alternative destinations open to potential visitors. This study focuses on the competitiveness of Kenya as a tourist destination and the factors that influence its position in the world market. Destination managers‚ planners and developers need to be aware of factors that influence attractiveness in order to improve and maintain destination competitiveness. Tourism is the world‟s fastest growing export industry‚ and managers face complex and difficult
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the effects of motivation on workers performance in Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited. An effort have been made to evaluate the existing workers motivational policies in Maiduguri Flour Mills with a view to examine the effects of motivation on worker productivity increase and also to identity the variable that are directly or indirectly responsible for workers performance ‚while assess how motivation come into play in Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited. The researchers however‚ observed that most of the motivation
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the environment and international security; from problems of identity and community to the future of work and nation state. (Gabel and Bruner‚ 2003‚ VI) A multi-national corporation (MNC) is a business organisation which has its headquarters in one country but conducts and controls productive activities in a range of different countries. There are numerous examples of such organisations‚ car manufacturers like Ford‚ Toyota‚ Honda ‚ Volkswagen; oil companies like Shell‚ BP‚ Exxon Mobil ; technology companies
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Improving Productivity Using IT As our organisation is very IT focused there are many different methods and software we use. Our main way of communicating is via email; this saves a lot of time and is also a faster way of letting the whole team know certain information. We use a variety of software to get tasks completed such as word‚ excel‚ PowerPoint‚ internet etc. As we very rarely have customers come into our office‚ most of our communications is by using computers. We have a company website
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fact that longer hours may have detrimental effects on work life balance and productivity. Work life balance has been defined as a phenomenon whereby optimum prioritisation between work and life aspects are achieved (Maxwell & MacDougall 2004). Nevertheless‚ many employees are unable to achieve an appropriate work life balance and this causes serious impacts on the health and individual wellbeing that effect work productivity. Achieving a good balance between work and life is critical because losing
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interaction and capture scenarios. Experiments show an accuracy that outperforms a conventional light fall-off baseline‚ and is comparable to high-quality consumer depth cameras‚ but with a dramatically reduced cost‚ power consumption‚ and form-factor. While range sensing technologies have existed for a long time‚ consumer depth cameras such as the Microsoft Kinect have begun to make real-time depth acquisition a commodity. This in turn has opened-up many exciting new applications for gaming
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