...technological guy even though it wasn’t appreciated. Not being able to use technology in high school was always an annoyance of mine. I’d always think about how there’s technology that would be useful to a student during school. Who wouldn’t love to have Wikipedia and a spell checker handy at all times? During my high school career, I would always get in trouble for using my phone as a source to look up a word definition on an app. I would hate it very much, only because I would only be looking for knowledge and wasn’t that what school was about? Looking for knowledge and learning ways to use that knowledge. Anyways, I graduated high school and fortunately I was able to go to college. Many questions came to mind about how college was going to be. Would it be better than high school, or would it be just as bad? Coming into college I discovered something totally opposite from my prediction about it. It was probably one of the happiest days of my life coming into college and realizing that technology could be used in classes! I have been doing research for the past 2-3 weeks to figure out if laptops help improve students learning in their educational career in order to find a partially accurate answer. However, problems with this are that teachers say that students tend to go on laptops and forget about class. This is sometimes true but David Silvernail, in his book T.H.E Journal, Volume 35, Issue 7 says that “more than 80 percent of teachers say the laptops have made them better...
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...(Course code) | F12122BTEC Diploma Health Studies / Health & Social Care | Unit Number and Title | Unit 6: Personal and Professional Development | Assignment Number & Title | Assignment 1 | Issue date | Week commencing 22/2/16 | Submission date | Week commencing 7/3/16 | Assessor | Debbie Hilton | IQA | Alyson Blud | Grading Criteria:(P1): Explain key influences on the personal learning processes of individuals. (P2): Assess own knowledge, skills, practice, values, beliefs and career aspirations at start of the programme(P3): Produce an action plan for self-development and achievement of own personal goals(M1): Assess the impact of key influences on the personal learning processes on own learning(D1): Evaluate how personal learning and development may benefit others | Scenario: Must be vocationalYou work for a health and social care service provider and you are developing your personal and professional development portfolio. The portfolio aims to enable you to understand the learning process and to give you the skills needed to plan for, monitor and reflect on your professional development. A minimum of 100 hours of work experience, in addition to the guided learning hours, is required for successful completion of this unit. | Task 1: Complete the electronic chart from Moodle (upload to vital) explaining the key influences on personal learning processes of individuals it should include the following: (P1) * Theories of learning: i.e. Honey and Mumford, Kolb...
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...Week 3 Career Plan Building Activity Reasoning Aptitude,MGT 521 week 3 organizational planning,Week 3 Quiz, Reflection A++ GRADED!!! Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services through the My Career Plan link. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. Review the Reasoning Aptitude results page. Add tips to your career plan by selecting the opportunities tab and click the “tips” next to the competency you want to add to your career plan. Click the “my career plan” tab on top of your page to view your populated career plan. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. What do your results tell you about your individual thinking style or your thought process range? How does knowing this information and your Competencies and Work culture Preferences help you to understand how work is done in teams? What adjustments can you make to your own teamwork style based on your Career Plan Building Activities? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 2- Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings to see the types of information companies include. Complete the following tasks in the University of Phoenix Material: Organizational Planning Worksheet. Cite your resources. Part One (hand in early): Select a Fortune 500 company. You may start your research on this company in the Job Market Research Tool in...
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...UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND / SEGi UNIVERSITY BA (HONS) BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT Module: Core Business Skills Code: UGB 103 Assessment Element 1: Skills Audit and PDP Plan (Total 15 module marks) (This assignment covers the following skills learning outcomes, taken from the Module Guide: Skills:- 8 - Manage own time, including setting own goals and targets for Progress Files) Date of Submission: 12th October 2012 TASK: Draw up an initial skills assessment to rate your skills level. Your assessment should include an analysis of your current strengths and weaknesses, personal development goals, and action plan. To complete this task you are required to: 1. Complete Form A “Self Assessment of my Present University Skills”, Form B “Areas for Discussion with your tutor”, and Form C “PDP Plan”. You may proceed with this activity after personally meeting and discussing with your tutor. 2. For further information please to refer to “Guide to Finding Study Skills Support & Starting Out on your Personal Development”, available on Sunspace in the UGB103 site. FORM A (3 Marks) SELF ASSESSMENT OF MY PRESENT UNIVERSITY SKILLS |Name: | |Date: | |Rate your Skills and Abilities ...
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...motivate and retain new graduates early in their careers. You must clearly justify the choice of theories chosen for this occupational group. Today this essay will be analysing and expressing two motivational theories. The theories will be concluded and conducted in the thesis of retaining and maintaining new graduates within their early stages of the working environment. The organisation that has been chosen to be based upon within this essay is Zara, the clothing company. After interpreting the essay question I have decided that the two controversial theories I will be assessing is Maslow’s theory that is constructed upon the hierarchy of needs as well as Fredrick Taylor and the application of scientific management and the motivational influence of money. I will be engaging and implementing my own opinion as to why I feel these theories are justifiable for the chosen occupational group, along with providing key research, highlighting benefits and drawbacks of these theories. Initially my essay will begin with the theory hypothesised by the man known as Abraham Maslow. I will briefly describe the main factors that are included within Maslow’s theory. Maslow refers to a pyramid of hierarchy that shows the basics needs that a worker requires in order to successfully be motivated. He theorises that every aspect of the pyramid grows less insignificant as you reach to the top of the pyramid. For example a quote helping prove my research is “Undoubtedly these physiological needs...
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...the thesis sample chapter 1, 2 , 3 CHAPTER I The Problem Introduction Tertiary education or post-secondary schooling is referred to in Education Act of 1982 as “higher education leading to a degree in a specific profession or discipline.” This is to provide a general education program that will promote national identity, cultural consciousness, moral integrity and spiritual vigor, train the nation’s manpower in the skills required for national development, to develop the profession that will provide leadership for the nation; and to advance knowledge through research work and apply new knowledge for improving the quality of human life and responding effectively to changing societal needs and conditions. (Aquino, 2003) According to Aquino (2003), a careful scrutiny of the aforementioned objectives will suffice to impress in the people’s minds the crucial importance of tertiary or college education. There are numerous reasons that college education is important. Among these reasons are gaining advantage over competition, demonstrating aptitude in a specific area and the fact that many job opening require a college degree are few of the top reasons. (http://www.degreedirectory.com). Moreover, college education many more opportunities in working life, especially for higher paid jobs and the chance to work with and be taught by some of the finest and most knowledgeable people. (http://www.importanceofcollege.com). McGuire (2010) stressed that getting a college education is...
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...date |Submitted on | |13.2.2016 |28.5.2016 | | | | | |Assignment title |Personal and Professional Development | |Learning Outcome | |Assessment |In this assessment you will have the opportunity to present evidence that shows you |Task no. | | |Learning Outcome |Criteria |are able to: | | |LO1 |Understand how selfmanaged |1.1...
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...of Assignment © KAMAL KANT, 2012 1 COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. NEW PARADIGM OF WORK CAREER THEORIES ABOUT UNDERSTANDING YOU LEARN TO WORK IN 21st CENTURY MOTIVATION, LEADERSHIP, TEAMS, INTELLIGENCE & STRESS 5. SUCEEDING IN CAREER 6. CAREER PLANNING AND JOB HUNTING © KAMAL KANT, 2012 SEE COURSE OUTLINE & CONTENTS OF TEXT FOR DETAILS 2 WORKING IN THE 21st CENTURY • 13 lectures. • PowerPoint slides of lectures will be posted at least a day before the lecture. • There is a prescribed text for course • There will be recommended readings. • These [prescribed text & recommended readings] must be read if you hope to do well/pass – applicable to S/U candidates too! © KAMAL KANT, 2012 3 FORMAT OF LECTURE • Tuesday Sessions 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm • Wednesday Sessions 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm. • Schedule during Lectures – About 1 hour LECTURE – 15 min – 20 min BREAK – About 1 hour LECTURE © KAMAL KANT, 2012 • Time at end of lecture for Discussion/ Consultation/Clarification with fellow students/instructor. [There are no tutorials for this course.] 4 • It is an paired assignment [40%]. ASSIGNMENT • The assignment essentially requires you to interview three individuals with at least 15 years of career history; and subsequently answer two questions related to information gained from the interviewees and applying your knowledge of the learning from the course and other research you may carry out. • Submission Date for Assignment: Tuesday, 9th...
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...Office, TRS2-168 E-MAIL COMMUNICATION: Ryerson requires that any official or formal electronic communications from students be sent from their official Ryerson e-mail account accessed via https://mail.ryerson.ca/ Students are required to activate and maintain a Ryerson Matrix e-mail account. Faculty will not respond to student inquiries from any other e-mail address. See Policy #157: Establishment of Student Email Accounts for Official University Communication www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/ for more detail. EMAIL SUBJECT LINE FORMAT FOR BUS100: Always end your email with your name and student number. Without using any commas, colons or dashes, please fill in the email subject line as follows: BUS100 Section Number Your Full Name a 2 or 3 word descriptor e.g. Subject: BUS100 Section 011 Joe Smith Math tutorial question Subject: BUS100 Section 301 Jane Smith Get Connected question Your section number is on RAMSS or on your timetable. If you do not address your email subject line in this way, the response to your email might be delayed due to tracking difficulties. KEY CONTACTS: Your facilitator is your first point of contact for most BUS100 and school related questions, however the following contacts may prove to be useful for special inquiries. For Math Proficiency inquiries: Contact Jack Koenka at jack.koenka@ryerson.ca For Ted Rogers School of Business Management (TRSBM) general information: Visit the 7th floor information counter in TRS1-004...
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...possible. These schemes of work give guidance for: * Content to be covered * Approximate time to spend on different key themes * Ideas for incorporating and developing the assessment skills related to each unit. Suggested teaching time This is based on a two year teaching course of five and a half terms with one and a half hours of history teaching each week. This would be a seventy week course with total teaching time of approximately 100 hours. The schemes suggest the following timescale for the different sections: * Paper 1: 20 hours for each of the two topics: Total 40 hours. * Paper 2 Section A: 20 hours for the topic: Total 20 hours. * Paper 2 Section B: 25 hours for the topic since it covers a longer period in time. Total 25 hours. * Revision: 15 hours. Possible options for those with less teaching time * 20 hours for Section Paper 2 Section B * 10 hours for revision. Other course planning support You will find other support for planning the course in the Teacher’s Guide. This is a free downloadable resource that you can access at www.edexcel.com/certificate. Edexcel Subject Advisors Edexcel has a team of specialist subject advisors available to help you with implementation of this specification. You can contact them by email...
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...Self-Assessment Tasks Plan MBA6004 Foundational Skills for Business Leaders Unit 1 Assignment 1 Introduction This report is a self-assessment of the written and Excel skills evaluation that is required by Capella. Based on the results from the assessment, the student is required to create an action plan for improving those skills in this course and future courses. The self-evaluation consists of three components. The first assessment consists of 20 multiple-choice questions. The second assessment instructs the student to write an essay on a given topic. The final assessment consists of 20 multiple-choice questions to determine the student proficiency and competency with Microsoft Excel. Once the self-assessment has been completed, the outcome of each assessment is made available to the student. This paper will discuss the steps that will be taken while pursuing my MBA degree. Learner Action Plan The Action Plan tab is designed to help students organize and manage key academic courses, structure professional and life tasks to support the students through the program to ensure overall academic success. The Skill Enhancement tab provides an extensive list of tutorial and self-paced courses to improve both your writing skills and Excel skills. Figure 1: Skills Enhancement Based on my assessment results, an action plan was developed that involved improving my writing and enhancing skills in Excel. My action plan does show that the dates that have been set to complete...
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...‘Global shifts in the supply and demand for labor mean that organizations need to focus more heavily on attraction, retention and career development of staff in order to meet these challenges’- Discuss The present essay focuses on the strategic human resource management and global shifts in demand and supply of labor which almost all the companies are facing to have skilled personnel. This essay critically evaluates some of the issues related to SHRM, global shifts in the supply and demand for labor which is then linked to the attraction, retention and career development for employees which an Organization provides these days for having better workforce with in the company. To support the arguments in the essay, the evidence are taken from the published scholarly articles. In the beginning of the essay we understand the role of SHRM, issues related to shifts in global labor market and its impact on organizations where recruitment, retention and career development of staff have become major challenge to the companies. We can also understand how employer formulates the strategy or strategies to retain the skilled employees with in the company. The role of HR executives in the SHRM and Organizational Performance are raising needs for the business and in the next future the HR will play a vital task in achieving the competitive advantage of the company. One international review shows that HR needs to be strategically planned to achieve competitive advantage by being more amenable...
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...Introduction 2 Main Body 2 Excessive Turnover 2 General Turnover 2 Critical Employee Turnover 3 Turnover in Low to Moderate Level 3 Motivation 3 Innovation 3 Relationship between Employee Turnover and Performance 4 Employee Retention 4 Significance 4 Job Satisfaction 5 Embeddedness 5 Others 6 Conclusion 6 Reference 6 Introduction Following the process of globalization which is increasingly developing, consequent fierce competition brings about frequent phenomenon of turnover in organizations (Liu et al., 2011). According to the statistic data that showed by Meier and Hicklin (2007), the turnover rate of U.S. federal government was 16.1% from 2003 to 2004, that of Dutch temporary employment agencies was 14.2% in 2005 and that of trucking even reached 41% in 2005. Currently, employee turnover is still lacking of attention in many aspects, such that most previous researches were focused on the reasons of turnover, but paid less attention to the effect of turnover (Ton & Huckman, 2008). The emphasis in this essay is that high employee turnover damages organization performance for increasing cost and causing critical employee leaving, while moderate level of turnover benefits organization performance for improving innovation and motivation, employers should focus on enhancing employee’s job satisfaction and embeddedness for retaining their employees. This essay has four parts. In the first and second part of the essay, both effect of excessive turnover and moderate...
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...needed for effective learning” Word Count: 858 Effective learning involves students learning a broad range of core skills and strategies that can be learnt and developed throughout the Higher Education (HE) life span. Throughout this essay discussion will explore the core tasks and strategies of effective learning, including the importance of “self” within the context of learning, the academic skills required and the scholarly expertise required to understand, research and produce academic essays or reports. Finally, a summary of the approach to effective learning will be detailed within the conclusion Studying at HE differs from other types of studying as students are expected to manage and their learning. Cottrell (2013, p. 10) reaffirms this, stating “that in HE, success lies largely in your own hands.” Generic literature (Payne and Whittaker, 2006; Price and Maier, 2006; Moore et al, 2010; Burns and Sinfield, 2012; McMillan and Weyers, 2012; Bedford and Wilson, 2013; Cottrell, 2013) is published on study skills and provides broad based overviews (skills, tasks and strategies) of the prerequisites required for learning at HE level. More task focused texts Godfrey (2011) on writing for university, Godwin (2014) on writing an essay, Cottrell (2011) on critical thinking, McMillan and Weyers (2012) on referencing and plagiarism and Williams et al. (2012) on reflective writing run parallel to the generic texts. Both these lists are in no way exhaustive but provide a flavour...
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...Test Bank for Organization Development & Change Chapter 1 General Introduction to Organization Development Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following is included in the definition of OD? a. OD applies to an entire system b. OD is based on behavioral science knowledge c. OD is concerned with planned change d. OD encompasses strategy, structure, and process changes e. all of the above ANS: e 2. Organization development distinguishes itself from organization change and change management by which of the following characteristics? a. addressing the effective sequence of leadership issues that produce organization improvements b. focusing narrowly on cost, quality, and schedule c. focusing on the transfer of knowledge and skills to help the system manage future change d. taking a broadly focused approach that can apply to any kind of change e. none of the above ANS: c 3. Which of the following is not one of the “stems” of OD? a. laboratory training b. environmental analysis c. action research/survey feedback d. participative management and quality of work life e. strategic change ANS: b 4. The first “T-group” was formed a. to facilitate decision making b. to work on group projects c. to make the group more cohesive d. as people related to data about their own behavior ANS: d 5. The assumption underlying the use of survey feedback in OD is a. surveys are the best way to collect data b. surveys allow...
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