...form of research. Research therefore cuts across all facets of human endeavor; in the sciences, humanities, electronics etc. These diversities create room for one to distinguish between what scientific research is and what a normal review of information is In simple terms, Research maybe defined as a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding. Cambridge Dictionaries Online, © Cambridge University Press 2003. Zora Neale Hurston described Research as a formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. The Concise Oxford English Describes Research as the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. A researcher on the other hand is someone who contributes to the understanding of a phenomenon and communicates that understanding to others. Research is designed to solve a particular existing problem so there is a much larger audience eager to support research that is likely to be profitable or solve problems of immediate concern. It is natural to stand at the beginning of a research project and feel overwhelmed by the amount of published research that exists in databases, literature reviews, and reference pages. At the same time, each new research project brings the hope of discovering something new. Overwhelming...
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... F. A. FAREEDY TEACHING ASSOCIATE: HAADIAH QAISER SYLLABUS 1. Case Study Method: How to prepare and present a case analysis. Why to do case studies? Traditional/Lecture approach versus the Case Method, Oral Presentations and Preparing a Written Case Analysis. Constructing Visual Aids and Answering Questions. 2. Introduction to Human Resource Management: Human Resource Management at Work. The changing environment and role of HRM. The Human Resource Managers’ Proficiencies. 3. Strategic Human Resource Management: The HR Scorecard: The Strategic Management Process. Human Resource Management’s Role in Creating Competitive Advantage. Human Resource Management’s Strategic Roles. Creating the Strategic HRM System. 4. A Review of concepts in Organizational Behavior: Motivation. Communication. Leadership. Management and corporate culture. 5. Recruitment and Placement: Job Analysis. Job Specification. Job Description. Human Resource Planning and Recruiting. Planning and Forecasting. Recruiting a more Diverse Workforce. 6. Employee Testing and Selection: Interviewing Candidates. Designing and conducting an effective interview. Structured and Unstructured Interviews. 7. Training and Development: Training and Developing Employees. Management Development systems and programs. 8. Performance Management and Appraisal: Appraising Performance; Problems and Solutions. Managing Careers. Employee Commitment. 9. Compensation: Establishing Strategic Pay...
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...body of knowledge on environmental scanning is developing, but unfortunately much of it is oriented toward for-profit companies and doesn't fully recognize the unique conditions of membership organizations. (See sidebar below for more information on resources ASAE is developing on environmental scanning for nonprofits.) But environmental scanning needn't be complicated or intimidating for association executives. Here are five steps to help begin that effort. 1. Consider Your Scanning Type Your first order of business is to set some parameters on the type of scanning you will be doing. There are two fundamental scanning types: "social intuitive" and "formal analytical." If you run a scanning process in which people investigate a wide range of sources and then produce a report by a given date, you are in formal-analytical mode. "Social intuitive" is a less rigorous type of scanning: The term acknowledges the fact that everyone scans their environment for useful information about what's coming down the pike. Some people are much better at social-intuitive scanning than others; research indicates that founders of successful startup ventures are adept at social-intuitive scanning. They do a lot of networking and are naturally inclined to ask questions and generate opinions on what the future holds. Similarly, people who use social media are trafficking in the kind of information that lends...
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...laymen’s terms, thus making such knowledge palatable and accessible to the general public, while also using leading technology to make the delivery of these educational resources interesting, interactive and addicting. Cashtivity’s motivation is driven by Marissa Di Pasquale’s motivation to be able to instruct people on how to manage and increase their wealth using what she believes should be common sense knowledge but isn’t at this point in time. In essence, she is trying to deliver financial knowledge to those who may not be interested at this point, for reasons such as complexity barriers to knowledge, or ignorance of wealth discipline; as well as to those who may wish to know more about financial knowledge but don’t have the tools to discover more about it. Simplicity is Cashtivity’s point of difference. Cashtivity is looking at ways to instigate uptake of its services on the internet within the school market as well as the family and friends market [which represents the stepping...
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...Topic Gateway Series Strategic Analysis Tools Strategic Analysis Tools Topic Gateway Series No. 34 Prepared by Jim Downey and Technical Information Service 1 October 2007 Topic Gateway Series Strategic Analysis Tools About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition, a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they signpost some further resources for detailed understanding and research. Topic Gateways are available electronically to CIMA Members only in the CPD Centre on the CIMA website, along with a number of electronic resources. About the Technical Information Service CIMA supports its members and students with its Technical Information Service (TIS) for their work and CPD needs. Our information specialists and accounting specialists work closely together to identify or create authoritative resources to help members resolve their work related information needs. Additionally, our accounting specialists can help CIMA members and students with the interpretation of guidance on financial reporting, financial management and performance management, as defined in the CIMA Official Terminology 2005 edition. CIMA members and students should sign into My CIMA to access these services and resources. The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 26 Chapter Street London SW1P 4NP United Kingdom T. +44 (0)20 7663 5441 F. +44...
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...Integration What is an authentic learning experience? Give examples of learning activities that use authentic learning experiences. Authentic learning aligns well with the needs of today’s participatory learners. The challenge is to channel their online and collaborative abilities and interests into academic pursuits, helping them develop the higher-order thinking skills they may not acquire on their own. Instructors are encouraged to design activities for their students that match as nearly as possible the real-world tasks of professionals in the field. The challenges students are asked to undertake should be complex, ambiguous, and multifaceted in nature, requiring sustained investigation. Reflection, self-assessment, and performance review are fully integrated into the exercise. The real-world challenge comes with its own criteria for success. Students are held accountable for achieving the milestones that practitioners would have to meet under genuine working conditions. Teamwork is as essential to the authentic learning experience as it is likely to be in modern workplace settings. Groups of students have to draw on multiple sources and negotiate among multiple perspectives—including those of the stakeholders (business partners, clients, customers, citizens) who will be impacted by their performance. An authentic learning exercise highlights a student’s capacity to affect the world beyond the classroom and to make contributions that are valued by peers, mentors, and prospective...
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...Topic Gateway Series Strategic Analysis Tools Strategic Analysis Tools Topic Gateway Series No. 34 Prepared by Jim Downey and Technical Information Service 1 October 2007 Topic Gateway Series Strategic Analysis Tools About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition, a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they signpost some further resources for detailed understanding and research. Topic Gateways are available electronically to CIMA Members only in the CPD Centre on the CIMA website, along with a number of electronic resources. About the Technical Information Service CIMA supports its members and students with its Technical Information Service (TIS) for their work and CPD needs. Our information specialists and accounting specialists work closely together to identify or create authoritative resources to help members resolve their work related information needs. Additionally, our accounting specialists can help CIMA members and students with the interpretation of guidance on financial reporting, financial management and performance management, as defined in the CIMA Official Terminology 2005 edition. CIMA members and students should sign into My CIMA to access these services and resources. The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 26 Chapter Street London SW1P 4NP United Kingdom T. +44 (0)20 7663 5441 F. +44...
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...Organizational Problem 4 Problem Statement 5 TCO Topic 5 Expanded Organizational Introduction: 5 Enhanced Problem Overview 6 Reasons & Measures of Preventable Attrition 7 Possible Solutions 7 How to Create Sustainable Performance 8 Inadequate Developmental 8 Boost Morale and Engagement 8 Increasing Responsibility and Exposure 8 Create Value 9 Optimizing Interactions between Staff 9 Achieving Quality Management 9 Offering Performance Feedback 10 Minimize Incivility 10 Managing conflicts 11 Responsible Leadership 11 Establishing Relationships 11 Summary of Recommendations 12 Reflection 13 References 15 How Organizational Behavior influences Attrition Company Background JDR Pharmaceutical discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics globally to patients with unmet medical needs. An established leader in biotechnology since 2001, JDR lead the industry by introducing safe, effective medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. JDR therapeutics have pioneered the approach with helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, heart disease, neurological deficits and providing vaccinations against flu and immunological disorders. JDR pharmaceuticals mission is to be the premier leader in scientific innovation and create value among our staff and stockholders. Quality, Integrity and Accountability are our values and strive to set the standards in the industry. We have...
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...CONSIDER RESEARCH TITLE 1. Research Title must be reflective of its problem 2. It must answer the following questions: 3.1 What question will answer THE FOLLOWING 3.2.1 What are you trying to investigate? 3.2.2 What are you trying to find out, determine or discover? 3.2 Who question will answer who are the respondents or subjects of the study 3.3 Where question will indicate the research locale, setting or the place where the research study is conducted. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT 1. An abstract is often also referred to as an executive summary or summary. 2. Its job is to give the reader a succinct overview of the whole report. 3. The abstract gives a reader a good idea of what is in a report without them having to read the whole document to find out what it’s about. 4. Abstracts and executive summaries save you time. 5. Is usually written after the rest of the report to make sure that it gives the reader an overview of the complete report 6. Is generally placed on a separate page at the beginning of the report before the Table of Contents Key Features: * the aim/purpose of the report * the procedure/methodology/analytical process * main results/findings * conclusion/s (based on the results & discussion) * any recommendations (if applicable). Chapter I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1. The proponent should describe the existing and prevailing problem situation based on his/her experience....
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...schools are not implementing the necessary motivational tools for “At-Risk” students that are already lacking in motivation themselves. This problem results in “At-Risk” students falling short of the appropriate next steps to succeed academically. This is more succinct: The problem is that At-Risk students score lower academically due to lack of motivation. Purpose Statement The action in this research was to analyze the attitude and personalities of 10 adolescents that were eligible for expulsion from school. The students range from ages 12 to 16 and were referred to an expulsion program for various reasons, including no interest in academics, disrespect, poor grades, or just utter defiance. The overall purpose of this research was to discover how “At-Risk” students are motivated and to determine what instructional strategies are most effective in motivating students. The purpose of this study is to see if implementing XXXX will impact the motivation and academic achievement of the At-Risk students in the researcher’s class You need to think of one specific way you can solve the problem and place it in the purpose statement. Now base your research questions on the problem and purpose statements. Motivating “At-Risk” Students: Taking the Next Steps towards Academic Success An Action Research Project Proposal Presented To The Faculty of the Department of Graduate School College of Education North Greenville University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements...
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...China. My entire childhood was surrounded by chronic poverty and pervasive ignorance in a little village where children of my age knew nothing but undulating ranges of grandeur mountains that even in my dream I would never have thought of one day I could break out of the vicious circle of illiteracy and innumeracy to become a lawyer and make an ambitious plan for further study in a world-class university in USA. Unlike peer friends whose sole dream was to have decent meals and warm clothes every day after school, I looked for another world from the foreign magazines that my dad subscribed for me using his scanty military salary. In my mind, a society where people were vested with rights to decent life, education and advancement was conjured up. And I cherished a passion to learn and explore that unknown world. As early as high school days, I realized that English was not only a valuable tool for me to discover the world but also helped shape my outlook with more comprehensive and impartial eyes. Thus, I kept learning days after days to build up my English competency in a hope for a day when I could communicate confidently and fluently as a native. I still remember my feeling when I read the book “Message from Nam” by Danielle Steel and knew for the first time how the American viewed the Vietnam War. But for a certain command of English, my view of the War would have been biased with distorted historical education in Vietnam. Moreover, with a strictly-controlled...
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...Recounting the plot of a movie, telling what happens, is the simplest way to explain it to someone else. But this is neither a film review nor a film analysis. It’s merely a synopsis that anyone else who sees or has seen the movie will likely agree with. This level of content may be called the referential content, since it refers directly to things that happen in the plot and possibly to some aspects of the story that are merely implied by the plot. In John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), four men from the city go on a weekend canoe trip that unexpectedly becomes a life or death struggle for survival of man against man and man against nature. Some characters survive, others don’t. Most films can be analyzed more thoroughly to reveal deeper levels of meaning. A review (perhaps 400-1200 words) typically includes personal impressions and evaluations of a movie’s content and techniques. A good review may be subjective, yet still touch superficially on topics that might be explored in more detail in a longer formal analysis. An analysis (perhaps 1200-12,000 words) attempts to determine how the film actually uses various cinematic techniques and elements of film or narrative form to make a viewer react in a certain way and why it makes viewers come away with certain opinions about it. Serious film criticism, whether essays written for magazines, journals, books, or class assignments,...
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...SPECIAL ISSUE: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: FROM BIG DATA TO BIG IMPACT Hsinchun Chen Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A. {hchen@eller.arizona.edu} Roger H. L. Chiang Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0211 U.S.A. {chianghl@ucmail.uc.edu} Veda C. Storey J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 U.S.A. {vstorey@gsu.edu} Business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) has emerged as an important area of study for both practitioners and researchers, reflecting the magnitude and impact of data-related problems to be solved in contemporary business organizations. This introduction to the MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Business Intelligence Research first provides a framework that identifies the evolution, applications, and emerging research areas of BI&A. BI&A 1.0, BI&A 2.0, and BI&A 3.0 are defined and described in terms of their key characteristics and capabilities. Current research in BI&A is analyzed and challenges and opportunities associated with BI&A research and education are identified. We also report a bibliometric study of critical BI&A publications, researchers, and research topics based on more than a decade of related academic and industry publications. Finally, the six articles that comprise this special issue are introduced and characterized in terms of the proposed BI&A research framework. Keywords:...
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...SPECIAL ISSUE: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: FROM BIG DATA TO BIG IMPACT Hsinchun Chen Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A. {hchen@eller.arizona.edu} Roger H. L. Chiang Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0211 U.S.A. {chianghl@ucmail.uc.edu} Veda C. Storey J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 U.S.A. {vstorey@gsu.edu} Business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) has emerged as an important area of study for both practitioners and researchers, reflecting the magnitude and impact of data-related problems to be solved in contemporary business organizations. This introduction to the MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Business Intelligence Research first provides a framework that identifies the evolution, applications, and emerging research areas of BI&A. BI&A 1.0, BI&A 2.0, and BI&A 3.0 are defined and described in terms of their key characteristics and capabilities. Current research in BI&A is analyzed and challenges and opportunities associated with BI&A research and education are identified. We also report a bibliometric study of critical BI&A publications, researchers, and research topics based on more than a decade of related academic and industry publications. Finally, the six articles that comprise this special issue are introduced and characterized in terms of the proposed BI&A research...
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...1 Ogilvy on Advertising By David Ogilvy Sarah Perry JOMC 170 Book Report July 18, 2006 2 About the Author David Ogilvy, born in 1911, was called by Time “the most sought after wizard in the business.” Ogilvy was one of the three key individuals in the Creative Revolution, along with Bill Bernbach and Leo Burnett. Before Ogilvy began advertising, he worked with research giant George Gallup for 3 years (David Ogilvy: History). Ogilvy came from the UK to start his agency Ogilvy & Mather. Starting with no clients in 1948, it has since grown into a worldwide enterprise (Ogilvy.com). As successful as Ogilvy was, he did it all with no college degree (Ogilvy 51). Some of Ogilvy’s most famous campaigns were the Hathaway shirts which ran for 25 years, Schweppes, and Rolls-Royce. Ogilvy wrote 3 books about advertising: Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963), Blood, Brains, and Beer: The Autobiography of David Ogilvy (1978) and Ogilvy on Advertising (1983). Ogilvy retired in 1971 and after his retirement, Ogilvy & Mather was purchased by mega agency WPP in 1989 for $864 million (Ogilvy.com). Ogilvy died in 1999 but his legacy in the advertising world will always be remembered. 3 Abstract of Ogilvy on Advertising In Ogilvy on Advertising, David Ogilvy writes about all aspects of advertising. He explains all the tips and rules he has learned about advertising through his own experience and through looking at data. He mainly writes about the aspects of advertising he knows from his own...
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