...dashboard relating to managing the risk of a company as well as aiding in the decision making process of the organization by visually showcasing data to the end users. However, with all the benefits of the dashboard it also comes with its own set of challenges that can create limitations that need to be overcome before the information gathered from the dashboard can be considered useful to the end users. The challenges that need to be overcome before the dashboard can be used is defining system requirements, input assumptions and accuracy, and overlying on the data. The first challenge is defining the system requirement this occurs when in adequate or incorrect definition of the purpose and objectives of the dashboard occurs (Ballou,Heitzger, Donnell). When this happens the end user is then utilizing data that may be incorrect and irrelevant to the organization creating a problem when critical organizational decisions are made based on the wrong data being pulled from the system requirements (Ballout, Heitzger, Donnell). To solve this challenge the organization needs to ensure the right criteria and objectives of the dashboard are defined before the dashboard is developed. By doing this, it ensures the data captured by the dashboard is accurate and can help aide in the decision making of the organization. The second challenge, input assumptions is defined as the inability of the user to understand key assumptions and inputs of the dashboard model (Ballou, Heitzger, Donnell).This...
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...Law Week: 4 Notes Law Week: 4 Notes Intention to Contract: Parties must seriously intend the agreement concluded between them to result in the terms that can be enforced. Must have reasonable and serious intention to be binding. South Africa subscribes to the justa causa doctrine. According to that principle, an agreement is enforceable in SA if the parties who made the agreement intended to be bound by the agreement and the agreement is made for a good reason. SERIOUS INTENTION TO CONTRACT The courts do not regard the following proposals to indicate a serious intention to contract: Proposals made in jest Social arrangements Gentleman’s agreements Pamphlets/Brochures Pricelists/Catalogues Most Adverts A contract can only give rise to a legal obligation once the following requirements are met: a) Consensus: Parties must have corresponding intentions to create a legal obligation with certain legal consequences between them b) Contractual Capacity: Parties must have the ability to form an intention and understand the consequences c) Legality: Contract must be lawful/legal. Contract may not be in conflict with either the Common Law or legislation d) Physical Possibility: performance, in terms of contract, must be possible and determined/determinable e) Formalities: Contract must be reduced to some visible form, must comply with specific procedures in its conclusion such as notarial execution as required by law Agreement: The core essence...
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...technical writing circles, it was once held that there is one precise and correct means of expressing a given idea (truth) such that no misinterpretation is possible. Although not every user of English is destined to be linguistic, I wonder whether we should teach students about the variety of brushes available. Giving students the ability to write in their own way opens the gates for self expression, as well as giving students a way to write comfortably, following an easier understanding for some readers. Young writers automatically link to colloquial writing also known as Black American English simply because it is more convenient. Black American English also known as Black Vernacular, the dialect of English often spoken by African Americans in urban and southern regions, is also known an "African American Vernacular English. A lot of young people first come to creative writing because they have a burning desire to express themselves. Emotions are running high, ideas are flying, and opinions are in full supply. In the moment of writing the student will most likely write just as they speak. African-American dialects tend to drop the [t] from words like rest and soft. They likewise tend to drop the [r] sound in words like bird, four, door, and father. With this being so the writing, to scholars and educated readers, is perceived as improper and incorrect. Black American English often uses the emphatic done to stress completion of an act. For instance, "He done did it" provides a more...
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... |Project may not achieve the client’s desired outcomes. Project may not be compliant with industry standards | |or/standards | | |Poorly written technical specifications |Project team may have difficulty following technical instructions. Failure to deliver | |Ambiguity of terms and/or conditions |Can lead to misinterpretation/ miscommunication by the client. Project team may have trouble following and | | |implementing scope document | |Lack of clear information on stakeholders |Not fully understanding the needs of the stakeholders. Preparing the wrong scope of works | |Incomplete or missing scope documentation |Scope creep, pay present an incorrect budget if documentation is missing...
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...Media is defined as “The means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely.” (Dictionary). It is an extraordinary power, with the ability to create and bombard its consumers with endless images and opinions. However, attached to the media’s power is its ability to overwhelm and negatively affect its consumers. Detrimental to politics, “...a sense of cynicism, distrust, and suspicion of modern politics and politicians”, otherwise known as “media malaise” (Newton, 1999) can be created by the media. Ultimately, the type, overexposure, content, and stance of the media combined with our own misinterpretations causes “media malaise” (Newton, 1999) and turns us off politics. The type and exposure of media plays a determinant role in the cause of “media malaise” (Newton, 1999). Newton (1999) discovered that while dependent on content, television can be subtly linked to “media malaise” (Newton, 1999). However, Newton (1999) also concluded that “...after controlling for income, education, gender, age, and party politics, reading a broadsheet newspaper is strongly connected with media mobilization...” (p.596). This indicates that the media’s ability to turn us off politics takes place the strongest through television as opposed to other types of media. In 2005, on average, Canadians watched a little over 3 hours of television per day and in the United States it was over 8 hours per day (www.economist.com, 2007). This trend...
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...Business Disconnect: Communication Processes and the Obstacles the Affect them Abstract The ability for any company to communicate effectively with another depends on its ability to use the communication process to its advantage. Sending, encoding, decoding and receiving are the steps necessary to achieve effective business-to-business messages. Along the way noise and other obstacles affect the reliability of the message sent and the understanding of the message received. Business Disconnect: Communication Processes and the Obstacles the Affect them Often time’s in business-to-business messages communication breakdowns cause incorrect information to be transmitted. Deals that may have otherwise been successful are destined to fail on the bass that what one company requires may not be understood by the company in a position to supply. Message in a Bottle The initial phase of communication is the message itself. Without a message to be sent communication is non-exsistent. The message sent must be carefully put togeather to insure that the meaning is understood in the context in which it was meant to be received. A message between two companies must have a level of understanding that allows tge receiver to understand exactly what the sender needs , wants or has to offer. The message can be in many forms but the message itself remains constant. It is the intent that is the important aspect. Return to Sender In the communication process the sender...
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...it's not easy to communicate effectively because there are a lot of communication barriers faced by all such as misinterpretations, semantic blocks, filtering etc. The following measures may be adopted to overcome the barriers and maintain the effectiveness of communication. 1. Simple Organizational Structure The organizational structure should not be complex. The number of hierarchical levels should be optimum. There should be an ideal span of control within the organization. More simple will be the organizational structure; more effective will be the communication. 2. Active Listening Listening attentively and carefully is essential for effective communication. There is a difference between “listening” and “hearing”. Active listening means hearing with proper understanding of the message that is heard. By asking questions the speaker can ensure whether his/her message is understood or not by the receiver in the same terms as intended by the speaker. 3. Feedback The effectiveness of communication is measured through feedback. Communication is a two-way process. The communication is complete when the receiver understands the message. In case of face to face communication, immediate feedback by seeing the emotions and expressions on the face of the listener can be of great help to the communicator. There should be a follow up action to ensure that the message is rightly understood. All communications should be followed up to generate feedback. 4. Proper Medium Selection ...
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...Cross-Cultural Communication Matrix The Cross-Cultural Communication Matrix provides detailed information about various countries, in this assignment will find important elements that will be helpful for the acquisition of knowledge about different cultures around the world, countries that are spoken in this project are China, Ireland, and Argentina. Cross Cultural Communication | Country | Preferred communication style | Non-verbal communication practices | Business communication norms | Strategies to increase cross-cultural communication | China | In China, there are several languages and dialects, the most important are Mandarin and Cantonese, most of business people speak at least some English (Katz, 2008).Chinese is a family of closely related but mutually unintelligible languages. These languages are known variously as f¨¡ngy¨¢n (regional languages), dialects of Chinese or varieties of Chinese. In all over 1.2 billion people speak one or more varieties of Chinese. All varieties of Chinese belong to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages and each one has its own dialects and sub-dialects, which are more or less mutually intelligible (Kwintessential Ltd, 2010 ). | The Chinese converse while standing around three feet apart, gestures are usually very subtle, it is advisable to restrict the body language; non verbal communication is very important, touching , crossing legs should be avoid, and hand gestures while speaking can distract the audience, eye contact...
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...Communication is the key to everything in the world. In any type of relationship, business or personal, communication is so important that it can make a business or relationship a success or a failure. Part of the world or the age of the relationship has an impact on a relationship but what can make it or break it, is the communication. Everyone communicates differently because of their backgrounds, their environment, their gender all have a reflection on their perception and their ways of communicating. Gender is known to have the most differences in everything, especially communication. Women like to talk and be open about any topic, while men are quieter and more to themselves. Since men and women tend to have different points of view, their conversations tend to be different. Research shows that “women use communication as a tool to enhance social connections and create relationships,” while men use communication to show dominance and reach actual goals (Merchant, 2012). Women like to have many close relationships with friends, co-workers, and families, while men don’t care for close relationships outside their immediate family. Woman will use the relationships she establishes in a workplace to get the things she needs done. While a man will use his dominance to get what he needs done. If a business values employees’ opinions than a demanding approach wouldn’t be as effective as a persuasive approach, which a woman would use due to her relationships. Women communicate...
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...was founded [The passive voice is a form of "be" (was) and a participle (founded). Over-use of the passive voice can make paragraphs officious and tedious to read. Prefer the active voice. For example, passive voice = The paper was completed on time. Active voice = the student completed the paper on time. See Center for Writing Excellence > Tutorials & Guides > Grammar & Writing Guides > Active & passive voice] by Kathy Kudler back in 1998. In this paper, four ideas will be addressed. The first on is to find out ["find out" is a "phrasal verb," two words that together mean something different from their individual meanings--looking up each word in the dictionary would not produce the meaning, which could cause misinterpretation in an international business communication. Use other words, like "discover" or simply "found"] what Kudler Fine Foods key business and accounting information needs are. The second is to analyze what strengths and weakness [Misspelling--The plural of "weakness" is "weaknesses"] Kudler Fine Foods has with the store current system. This will include software and hardware. The third is to show Kudler Fine Foods some opportunities that deal with technology and give suggestions to help improve Kudler’s Fine Foods opportunities. The fourth is to seek out threats the Kudler’s Fine Foods may encounter with the current system by...
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...DEFINE AND EXPLAIN PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION Communication is a process where we share our feelings, thoughts, experience, ideas, suggestions, feedback etc. So before communicating with other person we usually think of how to speak, what to speak, when to speak, which channel I should adopt to communicate, how can I make it effective, how to respond to the feedbacks etc. So process of communication is need not be same i.e. it’s not necessary to follow any persons definitions or explanation. It can be explained on the basis of our knowledge and belief. In process of communication receiver, message, sender, feedback are some of the important elements which has their own role and meaning. Usually the process of communication will not end in our life. We keep on communicating throughout our life and even we keep on communicating on our belief with someone like God. When the process of communication gets over on a particular issue it gives either positive result or negative result. In process of communication the idea which plays an important role. It is not possible to communicate with other person without having a meaningful idea. So our minds should generate the ideas in order to pass to another person. Definition of Communication: “No matter the type or mechanism of communication, every instance of communication must have a message that is being transferred from sender to receiver. In order for communication to be successful, the sender and receiver must have some signs, words...
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...Improving Communication Skills Communication is an elusive subject. Many people think they understand what communication is, and how to properly engage in the act; but do they? Maybe as well as they understand the theory of gravity; which is to say they understand the basic idea of it, but they do not understand the many layers and facets involved. Everyone in a communication circle will be a receiver or sender at some point, and should understand the essentials of communicating effectively. Communication is conveying an idea, compliment, or directive to another person so that they receive the information the way it was intended. That information must pass through barriers created by the situation or individual, which may garble the transmissions intent. That is why talking and nonverbal communicators are important for the sender to understand, and listening is an integral part of the receiver’s role. There is not a “right” way to achieve effective communication, but this paper will discuss a few facets and theories to aid in understanding the process. “Communication is the act of exchanging information.” (Rue & Byars, 2010, p. 41) One part of this exchange is talking, which many people believe to be the whole act of communication. Talking by itself is “one-way” communication, and rarely leads to effective interactions. Even when an individual is talking, they must also listen and read nonverbal cues to ensure their message is being received. There are a few things...
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...The Functional Areas of Business Management 521 March 4, 2013 Abstract Companies are formed [The passive voice is a form of "be" (are) and a participle (formed). Over-use of the passive voice can make paragraphs officious and tedious to read. Prefer the active voice. For example, passive voice = The paper was completed on time. Active voice = the student completed the paper on time. See Center for Writing Excellence > Tutorials & Guides > Grammar & Writing Guides > Active & passive voice] in different ways. There are small businesses with no definite functional areas because the owner performs almost all the tasks. When the business expands, it is necessary to have specialized department or functional areas. Functional areas are structured [Passive voice ] by different departments with different tasks and responsibilities. These functional areas are group of employees with diverse skills and expertise. Functional areas may include client service, operation, finance, human resources, marketing, and administration and [in academic writing, if this is a series, place a comma before the final conjunction (and)] IT support. These functional areas leads to more well organize business practice. ...
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...Chapter 1: Introducing Public Speaking Four Characteristics of Public Speaking: 1. Public speaking features communication between a speaker and an audience 2. Public speaking is audience centered 3. Public speaking emphasizes the spoken word 4. Public speaking is usually a prepared presentation What is the historical tradition of public speaking? As far back as the fifth century B.C.E., all adult male citizens in the Greek city-state of Athens had a right to speak out in the assembly and vote on proposals relating to civic matters. The ancient Greeks were the first people to think formally about rhetoric as well as a subject. Many of Aristotle’s ideas influence the study of public speaking even today. What are the main components of the transactional model of communication? How is this model different than the linear model? The linear model process involves several key elements. Specifically a person with an idea to express is the source, and the idea, that he or she conveys to the audience constitute the message. Sources communicate their messages to one or more receivers, who try to make sense of the messages by decoding. In the transactional model, the participants in a public speaking exchange seek to create a shared meaning – a common understanding with little confusion and few misinterpretations. How does critical thinking influence public speaking? When you engage in critical thinking, you carefully evaluate the evidence and...
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... Effective communication requires messages to be conveyed clearly to the appropriate parties, but along the way there are many communication barriers that can create misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the intended message (Burns, Bradley & Weiner, 2012). Such misunderstandings and misinterpretations are apparent in the case of Jesica Santillon. This case study will identify the social and cultural barriers that may have made it difficult for the doctors to communicate with Jesica’s family. This case study will also offer recommendations to modify the transplant process to ensure that misunderstandings are eliminated or minimized; and lastly it will propose some general communication strategies to manage communication with each group involved in this tragic case. Social and Cultural Barriers to Communication There may have been many communication barriers that hindered the doctors from effectively communicating with Jesica’s family. The language differences may have been a leading obstacle to effective communication between the physicians and the family. The family recently migrated to the United States seeking treatment for Jesica's condition and were not fluent in the English language. Immigrants that lack English skills and familiarity with diagnostic techniques and treatments used in the United States are less likely to receive the care and medical information they need (Freeman, 2013). Health literacy may have also induced the communication barrier between...
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