The Current Undergraduate The article‚ “Ask Not What You Can Do For Your University‚ but What Your University Can Do For You”‚ written by the University of California Los Angeles Student WebZine‚ claims that universities are no longer providing education for students‚ but rather running a business. Colleges have turned into a profit seeking institution‚ making decisions based on financial concerns. The article claims that students are customers and education is a purchase. Webzine scolds the students
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Food Technology: Factors Affecting an Adolescent’s Food Choice By: William Gardiner Year 11 Adolescence: What is it? Adolescence is the time of an individual’s life‚ in which the body changes drastically. It is a time of physical‚ psychological‚ cognitive‚ emotional and social development. This occurs during the ages of 13-19 and even to the age of 21. During this time frame‚ children begin developing their adult characteristics‚ and new roles in life. In this time of radical change to
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WHY IS SEX FUN? If you were a male would you rather have a beautiful‚ impressive‚ long tail that attracts a lot of women or would you rather have a shorter‚ less attractive tail that enables you to escape from predators more easily? Living out in the wild among many potential predators‚ a shorter tail would seem more logical since it would be a more useful trait than a good-looking one. Though the most logical choice‚ it is not always the case. In many species‚ traits that would normally be considered
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I believe that in large measure what makes an organization successful in meeting the needs of its various constituencies is its distinctiveness. Organizations that have strong and unique cultures generally experience excellent performance which implies why many of the most successful organizations today are thriving and growing because‚ in large part‚ of their unique and strong styles and values towards corporate culture. Yet these same conditions pose a critical set of challenges but yet retain
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Empowering Your Organization Introduction Organizations are about people. People are the most valuable asset that an organization can possess to create success. The development of these people and the ability for an organization to retain talent can be complex. An organization must be organized to communicate and provide the structure necessary for growth and development. They must also have the people within the organization understand their ability to grow and the directions available
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TOOL KIT Is Yours a Learning Organization? Using this assessment tool‚ companies can pinpoint areas where they need to foster knowledge sharing‚ idea development‚ learning from mistakes‚ and holistic thinking. by David A. Garvin‚ Amy C. Edmondson‚ and Francesca Gino L Daniel Chang EADERS MAY THINK that getting their organizations to learn is only a matter of articulating a clear vision‚ giving employees the right incentives‚ and providing lots of training. This assumption is not merely
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person‚ team‚ or organization to influence others i.e. the ability to get someone to do something you want done or the ability to make things the way you want them to. DEPENDENCE THEORY OF POWER “If B is dependent on A‚ then A has power over B” SOURCES OF POWER Classifying different types of power that people can exert over one another in interpersonal communication can help analyse the power balance in any situation. It can assist people in leadership positions exert influence over subordinates
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Can you say what your strategy is? - David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad The authors emphasize on the importance of having a short (35 words max) company strategy‚ and communicating it to the employees. This is important to direct the companies operations in a coherent manner. The company and its employees need to know where the road is going. A strategy is not about your values of your mission‚ but simply about what your competitive game will be: what are you doing differently to your competitors
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Natural selection is the process by which individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with unfavorable traits. In order for natural selection to occur there must be heritable variation for a trait and there must be differential survival and reproduction associated with that trait. (C.Stated) Heritable traits become either more or less common in population as the inherited traits in the differential reproductive success of the better adapted organisms
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Recruitment and selection of a sales and marketing manager ABC biscuit company is a very profitable company which has achieved a remarkable growth during the last two years. They had 55 local customers and 5 foreign customers. One of their objectives were to increase their sales turnover in 20%.in order to do this they were focusing to expand their international customer base. This company has 60 employees and mr.de Silva the finance manager is handling all recruitments. Most of the employees whom
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