...Diversity in Canada August 23, 2011 Abstract In this paper I will be looking at diversity in Canada and how the term of diversity is used to refer to cultural differences, how it applies to all the qualities that make people different. Diversity is shown in mutual respect and appreciation of the similarities and differences such as age, culture, education, ethnicity, experience, gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation. An environment where diversity is respected is on whereas individuals, and members of teams, can effectively apply all talents, skills and experiences. Demographic characteristics are the background characteristics that help what a person becomes. Ethnicity reflects the cultural experiences and feelings of a particular group but does not exclude the possibility that individuals within that group have the capacity to learn cultural behaviors of other groups. Diversity in Canada Canada is the second largest country and it is located in the Western Hemisphere. Diversity is important to a country because with a diverse environment people can benefit and learn from each others ideas. As more immigrants go to Canada the more diverse the country becomes. Canadians express a sense of unity and they are open to accepting other individual’s culture. This research paper is on the diversity in Canada and will be answer with the following questions: What is the key diversity concerns for Canada? Which groups are dominant and non-dominant? What are the participation...
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...Health Human Resources Planning: an examination of relationships among nursing service utilization, an estimate of population health and overall health status outcomes in the province of Ontario November 2003 Gail Tomblin Murphy, PhD(c) Linda O’Brien-Pallas, PhD Chris Alksnis, PhD Stephen Birch, PhD George Kephart, PhD Mike Pennock Dorothy Pringle, PhD Irving Rootman, PhD Sping Wang, PhD Decision Maker Partners: Lucille Auffrey, RN Jean-Marie Berthelot Tom Closson Doris Grinspun, RN Mary Ellen Jeans, RN, PhD Kathleen MacMillan, RN, MA, MSc Barbara Oke, RN Judith Shamian, RN, PhD Barb Wahl, RN Funding Provided by: Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation University of Toronto Principal Investigators: Gail Tomblin Murphy Professor, School of Nursing Dalhousie University 5869 University Avenue Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7 Linda O’Brien-Pallas Professor and CHSRF/CIHR Chair, Nursing Human Resources Unit Co-Principal Investigator, Nursing Effectiveness, Utilization & Outcomes Research Unit Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto 50 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4 Telephone: (416) 978-1967 Fax: (416) 946-7142 E-mail: l.obrien.pallas@utoronto.ca Telephone: (902) 494-2228 Fax: (902) 494-3487 E-mail: gail.tomblin.murphy@dal.ca This document is available on the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Web site (www.chrsf.ca). For more information on the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, contact the Foundation...
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...AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES COURSE CODE: SWD112 COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY QUESTION PICK ANY SOCIOLOGY FOUNDING FATHER, WRITE HIS OR HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGY BY HEZEKIAH KELLY .M.O. D12SG0016 DATE: JUNE 2013 EMILE DAVID DURKHEIM (1858 – 1917) BRIEF HISTORY AND EARLY LIFE STAGES OF DURKHEIM Durkheim was born in the eastern Pascoag providence of Lorraine, which at that time was part of Germany, on April 15th 1858. He came from a long line of conservative French Jews but, he decided early in his life he would not follow in his family’s footsteps. He led a completely secular lifestyle. he never completely detached himself from his family or the Jewish community. Many of his colleagues and students were either from the Jewish community or of blood relation. In 1879 Durkheim entered École Normale Supérieure, as a very promising student. That year’s class was one of the most brilliant in the nineteenth century. Many of his classmates, such as Jean Jaurès and Henri Bergson, went on to become very influential to France’s history. Very early in his career, Durkheim became interested in the scientific approach to society by reading works by social scientists, Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte, and studying with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Thus, he found many problems with the French...
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...market growth. The basic idea behind it is that the bigger the market share a product has or the faster the product’s market grows the better it is for a company. Placing products in the BCG matrix results in 4 categories in a portfolio of a company: 1. STARS(high growth, high market) - Use large amounts of cash and are leaders in the business so they should also generate large amounts of cash. -Frequently roughly in balance on net cash flow. However if needed any attempt should be made to hold share, because the rewards will be a cash cow if market share is kept. 2. CASH COWS(low growth, high market share) - Profit and cash generation should be high, and because of the low growth, investments needed should be low. Keep profit high. - Fondation of company. 3. DOGS ( low growth, low market share) - Avoid and minimize the number of dogs in a company. - Beware of expensive ‘turn around plans’ - Deliver cash, otherwise liquidate. 4. QUESTION MARKS ( high growth, low market share) - Have the worst cash...
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...omLe journal du Social Business "W� h��� t� �e� �u� � ��i� ��nd�e� �ha� ��� �i�� ���� d� ��� �u���es� �n� ��� po�� ���� h��� ��� �h��i��." Muhammad Yunus AGIR Vers une économie solidaire ATELIERS MakeSense démocratise le social business EDITION SPECIALE International Social Enterprise Forum INITIATIVE: Babyloan, le microcrédit nouvelle génération I DEE Les outils financiers au service de l’entrepreuneuriat social ACTUALITE Le Pr. Yunus remis en question au Bengladesh Rise up! - N°2 - Spécial ISEF Mars 2011 N°2 1 ’Entreprise est un outil formidable et innovant pour aider les exclus du système économique à s’insérer et s’intégrer dans la société. Cependant, toutes les entreprises ne se donnent pas les moyens d’assumer cette responsabilité sociétale. Develop agit pour promouvoir un modèle d’entreprises privées et responsables pour lesquelles le développement social est au moins aussi important que la rentabilité financière : ce modèle s’appelle Social Enterprise. Implantée à Lille comme à Nice et représentée par ses 45 L EDITO membres, dont 10 nationalités, Develop travaille à faire connaître l’entrepreneuriat social et à mettre en relation les différents acteurs économiques pour que se développent des pratiques d’entreprises plus responsables qui mettent l’humain au centre des préoccupations économiques. Dans cette optique Develop organise l’International Social Enterprise Forum 2011 (ISEF 2011) qui se tient à Nice le 25 mars. Ce Forum international...
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...Table of Contents I. The main facts about the UE and its citizen 2 II. Motivation to have an EU. 3 III. Diversity in EU: a weakness? 4 1. The premises: coordination between states. 4 2. The premises: The Council of Europe. 4 3. The need for a United Europe. 4 4. Which Europe? 5 IV. The European Political Community. 5 5. More info 5 V. The main theories about European construction 5 6. European Economic Community (EEC) 1958-1985 6 7. The customs union 6 8. Policy coordination & harmonization 6 9. Common policies: 3 areas. 6 10. Permanent, single institutions are created 7 11. European social policy & investments 7 12. Surveillance of EU policies 7 13. Stagnation and euro-pessimism (1973-1985) 7 14. European leaders stop using The Luxembourg compromise. 7 15. What does it show? 7 16. Single European act 8 VI. Furthering European integration 8 17. Customs union without harmonization of norms & standards 8 VII. Maastricht treaty 8 VIII. The EU 4 freedoms 9 18. Free movement of goods 9 19. Free movement of persons 9 IX. Theory and practice of integration 10 20. Political view and gradual political process 10 21. international political developments push Europeans to reinforce cooperation 10 X. The different stages of economic union 12 XI. Treaty of Nice 12 XII. The council of European Union 12 22. Responsibilities 13 XIII. European parliament 13 XIV. Council of Europe...
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...SEMINAR ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPMENT 1 BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINES ‘D’ BY JULIUS KWAKU KATTAH STUDENT ID. NO. UD32228BEC40802 DOCTORATE IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HONOLULU, USA 09/07/14 ABTRACT The business strategy perspective argues that achieving competitive advantage hinges on pursing a coherent competitive strategy. Family businesses are also said to manifest a strong desire to develop enduring and committed social relationships with external stakeholders. This study examines the effect of business strategy on performance of family businesses and how their managerial social networking relationships with external entities moderate the business strategy–performance link. Using data from 54 family firms from Ghana, the findings indicate that: (1) the pursuit of the business strategies of cost leadership and differentiation create competitive advantage for family businesses; (2) social networking relationships with government bureaucratic officials and community leaders are beneficial to family businesses, but social networking relationships with political leaders is detrimental to family businesses; and (3) the benefit of business strategy to...
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...Early life and education Early years [pic] [pic] Muhammad Yunus at Chittagong Collegiate School, while visiting the school in 2003. The third of nine children,[10] Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Muslim family in the village of Bathua, by the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari, Chittagong, in the British Raj (modern Bangladesh).[11][12] His father was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sufia Khatun. His early childhood years were spent in the village. In 1944, his family moved to the city of Chittagong, and he was shifted to Lamabazar Primary School from his village school.[11][13] By 1949, his mother was afflicted with psychological illness.[12] Later, he passed the matriculation examination from Chittagong Collegiate School securing the 16th position among 39,000 students in East Pakistan.[13] During his school years, he was an active Boy Scout, and traveled to West Pakistan and India in 1952, and to Canada in 1955 to attend Jamborees.[13] Later when Yunus was studying at Chittagong College, he became active in cultural activities and won awards for drama acting.[13] In 1957, he enrolled in the department of economics at Dhaka University and completed his BA in 1960 and MA in 1961. After graduation Following his graduation, Yunus joined the Bureau of Economics as a research assistant to the economical researches of Professor Nurul Islam and Rehman Sobhan.[13] Later he was appointed as a lecturer in economics in Chittagong College in 1961.[13] During...
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...2007Citizenship Review Toward a Committed Cirque Toward aCommitted Cirque 2007 Citizenship Review A star shines for Cirque du Soleil. It has already given us much and it offers us even more. Sharing this star is working with passion and love to build a better world. The year 2007 premiered in the same year. was rich and bountiful for Cirque du Soleil throughout the world. More than 10 million people saw a performance by Cirque in one of the 200 cities we visited during this period. And for the first time in nearly a decade, two new Cirque du Soleil shows KOOZA™ has been thrilling North American audiences under the blue-and-yellow Big Top since its premiere in the spring of 2007. Born of the fertile imagination of director David Shiner, a Cirque du Soleil ® stalwart in the earliest days of the company, KOOZA reaches back to the deepest roots of the circus to bring to life the eternal confrontation between fear and awe during the course of an incredible, wild journey. Meanwhile, Wintuk™ is a heartwarming winter tale, recounting the journey of a young boy who wants to bring snow and joy to the heart of a grey winter. This first-ever seasonal show from Cirque du Soleil was presented in the WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden during November and December. This show is the beginning of a real Holiday tradition between Cirque and the city of New York. Not to be outdone, our arena shows have enjoyed similar success: Saltimbanco™ which , closed in 2006, was revived...
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... INTRODUCTION The United Nations Global Compact, also known as Compact or UNGC, is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The Global Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Under the Global Compact, companies are brought together with UN agencies, labour groups and civil society. The Global Compact is the world's largest corporate citizenship initiative and as voluntary initiative has two objectives: "Mainstream the ten principles in business activities around the world" and "Catalyse actions in support of broader UN goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)."[1] The Global Compact was first announced by the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an address to The World Economic Forum on January 31, 1999[2], and was officially launched at UN Headquarters in New York on July 26, 2000. The Global Compact Office is supported by six UN agencies: the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; the United Nations Environment Programme; the International Labour Organization; the United Nations Development Programme; the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; and the United Nations Office on Drugs...
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...micro-level of analysis we hypothesized that there were two distinct non-overlapping groups of individuals – those more disposed towards knowledge creation, and those more disposed towards knowledge sharing. This hypothesis was examined with empirical data from employees of 5 knowledge-intensive companies. Author contact information: Tatiana E.Andreeva, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management department, Graduate School of Management, St.Petersburg State University 16, Dekabristov per., St.Petersburg, Russia, 199155 Phone: (7-812) 350-8155 Fax: (7-812) 350-0406 e-mail: andreeva@som.pu.ru 1. INTRODUCTION Managing knowledge-related processes in organizations is one of the hotly discussed themes of the last decade. Both management practitioners and academics claim that it is namely these processes that are crucial for creation and maintenance of the competitive advantage in the post-industrial era (e.g., Nonaka, 1994, Davenport, Prusak, 2000). Another topical issue for contemporary organizations is managing their human resources, as people are recognized nowadays as being the most valuable asset of the modern organizations (e.g. see...
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...on to a more promising venture. The exercise of putting a business plan together is a helpful one, and by the end of the process you will have a document that helps you and potential investors think about how promising the venture truly is. This chapter covers the whys and how-tos of a business plan in depth, looking at the main parts and why they are important, as well as what to do with your business plan. In addition, we will look at other common themes characteristic of the early phase of technology startups such as product development and marketing and communications strategy, as well as issues of intellectual property. 2.1 What Is a Business Plan? A business plan is a document describing a venture’s opportunity, its product or service, context, strategy, team, required resources, and potential financial returns [1]. It is guided by three basic questions [2]: • Where are we now? • Where do we want to be? • How are we going to get there? There is ample material available on how to structure and write a successful business plan. We could even go so far as to say that the art of writing business plans has been commoditized over the years. Therefore, the mechanism behind the document should not present the entrepreneur with insurmountable challenges. What makes successful business planning so difficult is the time and thinking 85 86 2 Planning the New...
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...IAU Ge Bibliographic Database on Higher Education HEDBIB The International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB) is an integrated database including over 25.000 references, from 1988 onward, on higher education systems, administration, planning and policy,costs and finances, evaluation of higher education, issues related to staff and students, cooperation, mobility and equivalences of degrees, curricula, teaching methods and learning processes. It is available in the UNESCO CD-ROM “UNESCO DATABASES” (current ed: 1999). List of Participants in the HEDBIB database International Association of Universities (IAU) IAU/UNESCO Information Centre on Higher Education Coordinating Agency and Bibliographical Reference Service Elzbieta Karwat - Head Librarian Unesco House, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris cedex 15, France karwat.iau@unesco.org http://www.unesco.org/iau ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (ERIC) 1100 West Street, Second Floor, Laurel, Maryland 20707-3598, USA http://www.gwu.edu/~eriche UNESCO Headquarters in Paris 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07, France s.fernandez-lauro@unesco.org http://www.unesco.org UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) Str Stirbei Voda 39, R-70732 Bucharest, Romania bucharest@unesco.org http://www.cepes.ro UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) Apartado postal 68.394, Caracas 1062-A,...
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...ANNUAL REPORT 2010 TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL IS THE GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATION LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION. THROUGH MORE THAN 90 CHAPTERS WORLDWIDE AND AN INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT IN BERLIN, WE RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION AND WORK WITH PARTNERS IN GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO TACKLE IT. www.transparency.org WE ARE A GLOBAL MOVEMENT SHARING ONE VISION A WORLD IN WHICH GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, BUSINESS, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DAILY LIVES OF PEOPLE ARE FREE OF CORRUPTION Editors: Alice Harrison and Michael Sidwell Design: Sophie Everett Cover photo: © Reuters/Yannis Behrakis Every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of the information contained in this report. All information was believed to be correct as of June 2011. Nevertheless, Transparency International cannot accept responsibility for the consequences of its use for other purposes or in other contexts. ISBN: 978-3-935711-79-1 Printed on 100% recycled paper. ©2011 Transparency International. All rights reserved. This report provides a snapshot of how the Transparency International movement was active in the fight against corruption in 2010. For the purpose of conciseness, national chapters, national chapters in formation and national contacts are referred to as chapters, regardless of their status within Transparency International’s accreditation system. Visit www.transparency.org/chapters for their current...
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...luxury goods. A global vision dedicated to serving the needs of every customer. The successful marriage of cultures grounded in tradition and elegance with the most advanced marketing, industrial organization and management techniques. A singular mix of talent, daring and thoroughness in the quest for excellence. A unique enterprise that stands out in its sector. Our philosophy can be summarized in two words: CREATIVE PASSION. 12 22 36 46 58 WINES & SPIRITS FASHION & LEATHER GOODS PERFUMES & COSMETICS WATCHES & JEWELRY SELECTIVE RETAILING — The values of LVMH Innovation and creativity Because our future success will come from the renewal of our product offering while respecting the roots of our Maisons. Excellence of products and service Because we embody what is most noble and accomplished in the artisan world. Brand image enhancement Because they represent an extraordinary asset, a source of dreams and ambitions. Entrepreneurship Because this guarantees our ability to react and our motivation to create and seize opportunities. Leadership – Be the best Because it is through continually excelling that we accomplish the best and achieve the best results. LVMH 2012 —...
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