...How to Avoid the 24-Hour Locksmith Scam How the Locksmith Scam Works Imagine yourself getting out of your car or house. Then, you suddenly realized that you do not have your keys with you! Of course, the first thing that comes to your mind is to call for help. Yet, it is best that you read this before you even think of calling for a locksmith. Many people fall victim to this 24-hour locksmith scam every day. In fact, this happens anywhere around the country. Although many of these locksmiths are trustworthy, the number of victims keeps increasing. Therefore, it is best that you learn about the scam before you become a victim yourself. If you ever need a locksmith, you search for an ad for a technician. Surely, you will opt to take advantage someone offering his services for a low price, for example, $25. You...
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...Cultural Differences Paper Com/360 March 23, 2015 Cultural Differences All of us have been confronted with cultural differences at some point in time. Cultural differences often lead to misunderstandings however this can also have a serious impact on our personal relationships and business relationships. Culture is a strong part of people's lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. However, working with people and building relationship helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures. The differences among people stems from being in another nationality, ethnicity, and culture, from family background and from individual experiences. In which these differences affect our beliefs, practices, and behavior and also influence our expectations for one another. Cultural differences are important to identity for it provides us with a sense of belonging. A person's culture is often very important to them, because it has been apart of them since birth. Cultures aren't simply the differences between nations, the differences within communities and within your own back yard. Edward Hall When you want to seek to align and gain greater influence with other people of different culture, first you must understand the personal, national or organizational culture. When working across cultures, you must take note to the key factors. Anthropologist, Edward T. Hall’s introduced a theory about...
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...Career Research Paper I have designed this assignment as a step by step guide to walk my students through the research process. Of course, you may adjust it as you feel is necessary according to the level of students you are working with. This project explains in detail everything they need to research, as well as, giving them real world insight into what to expect in a career in terms of education, job duties and responsibilities and income. I begin by having them take a reality check quiz on the Jump Start Coalition website. This little quiz helps them determine how much money they will need to earn in order to live the lifestyle they would like to have. This income amount in turn helps open their eyes to the type of job necessary to achieve that income and what amount of education is involved. It was a real wake up call for many of my students. In this package I have also included a grading rubric for the project and a list of possible career choices for their assignment. Student Instructions You will be writing a research paper on a career chosen from the attached list. Think carefully about which career you chose to research. Read through these directions and the requirements for this assignment BEFORE making your choice. Materials needed for this project - ---note cards (preferably 3x5 lined) ---folder with pockets to keep all research materials in ---access to internet and reference books A. Take reality check quiz at http://www.jumpstartcoalition...
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...stress could be caused by fear of being laid off or pressure to perform meeting expectations. Whatsoever the cause may be, there are companies or government organization program that offers services as a part of benefits to employees. The aim of this paper is to discuss the different methods the human resource management can help employees to overcome workplace stress and how the various elements of the stress reduction program addresses the six areas of organizational life which are amount of workload, amount of control, rewards system, interaction with a sense of community, fairness and values. Two journal articles are analyzed in this paper. The first article is the main focus of this paper because it illustrates the workplace of a man named Alan Logan who works at Huntington Hospital, the article is by Tyler (2006) on “stress management”. The second article is by Sidle (2008) on “workplace stress management interventions: what works best?” Occupational stressors can result from job dissatisfaction to work environment. Most people who are not satisfied with their jobs for reasons such as the salary or the condition of the workplace tend to get frustrated easily which causes workplace stress. According to Greenberg, “research studies have found that low levels of job demands and high levels of job control are associated with job satisfaction.” (Greenberg, 2011, p. 329) It is important to have a safe and comfortable work environment. This is because too much noise, hazards...
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...mining equipment for both surface and underground operations. Until the year 2000, when it sold its Beloit Corporation subsidiary, Harnischfeger was also a major manufacturer of machinery for the pulp and paper industry. The company is represented in markets around the world, including Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Southeast Asia, and in South Africa, Canada, and the United States. Harnischfeger manufactures specialized equipment for underground mining of coal, as well as equipment for surface extraction of ores and minerals. A significant portion of the company's income comes from servicing mining equipment worldwide and providing spare parts. The company has a long history, punctuated in recent years by bankruptcy and near bankruptcy. After surviving a disastrous business downturn in the 1980s, the company made an impressive comeback, and then ended the 1990s in Chapter 11. Harnischfeger was forced to sell off its pulp and paper machinery manufacturing division to remain in business. 19th-Century Beginnings Like many century-old American enterprises, Harnischfeger traces its origins to an industrious immigrant with a dream. In 1884 Henry Harnischfeger was working at a sewing machine company in Milwaukee. Born in Germany, Harnischfeger had worked previously as a locksmith, a machinist, and a machine maker. He was a foreman in the sewing plant when the company appeared about to go under. Forming a partnership with Alonzo Pawling, a pattern maker in the same plant, Harnischfeger...
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...goals (Mathis & Jackson 2008) * Term HRM is used in two ways: * Generic approach: describes a body of management activities - seen as a new term for ‘personnel management’ * Distinctive approach to the management of people: distinct from personnel management - a distinct philosophy * Organizational Assets: Physical, Financial, Intangible, Human * Old Myths about HRM Old Myths | New Realities | People go into HR because they like people. | HR departments are not designed to provide corporate therapy or as social health-and -happiness retreats. HR professionals must create the practices that make employees more competitive, not more comfortable. | Anyone can do HR. | HR activities are based on theory and research. HR professionals must master both theory and practice. | HR deals with the soft side of a business and is therefore not accountable. | The impact of HR practices on business results can and must be measured. HR professionals must learn how to translate their work into financial performance. | HR focuses on costs, which must be controlled. | HR practices must create value by increasing the intellectual capital within the firm. HR professionals must add value, not reduce costs. | HR’s job is to be the policy police and the health-and-happiness patrol. | The HR function does not own compliance...
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...ChangeThis Y Save to disk Hide/Show menus Guerrilla Marketing Over 90 field-tested tactics to get your business into the frontlines continued > We know this is a gorilla, not guerrilla. But it’s a better picture, isn’t it? by Jay Conrad Levinson Not using Adobe Acrobat? Please go to http://changethis.com/content/reader | iss. 4.04 | i | U | X |+| NEXT f ChangeThis 1. MAKE CUSTOMERS A BIRTHDAY CARD Guerrilla Ray Fisher of Keylock Mini Storage in Pinellas Park, Florida celebrates his tenantsʼ birthdays with a card he creates himself. He prints a poem on the card and gets four cards out of each piece of 8-1/2 x 11 card stock. He goes to Kinkos to have the cards printed and cut. Since sending the cards, Fisher has received a very positive response. One tenant even dropped by office just to say he really appreciated the card. Fisher started a file organized by month to pre-address the cards to make it easy to mail within a week of upcoming birthdays. Any service business can profit from this personal touch. 2. A STICKY SUCCESS STORY Guerrilla Mike Cohen informs us that no one ignores coupons from Captain Tonyʼs Pizza in Cleveland, Ohio. Thatʼs because they are printed on Post-It™ notes and placed each month on every door in their delivery area.The typical response rate is 30%. Cohen honors us by calling this promotional concept, Guerrilla Mail. He attributes the programʼs success to both the look and the feel of the coupon. It resembles...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This projects report containing the marketing research on “Brand Awareness of General Motors at Bellad Enterprises PVT LTD. Hubli. I have chosen this topic concerned to their requirement as the Bellad Enterprises PVT LTD. GM having over 12 brands in different countries, but mainly 2 brands on which I have concentrated more as per requirement of Bellad Enterprises PVT LTD. Because as the GM is one of the biggest companies in the world not only producing and selling cars and now they concentrating to target the domestic market and they trying to know how much the domestic market or local people are aware of their different brands and how they have opinion regarding these brands. So in simple the need is to know, the awareness level and the customers response about brands of GM. My basic intention is to make the customers or people make aware of different brands of GM and also to know the opinion in the market and their perception and satisfaction in the market of GM brands. Data collection approach: By using primary and secondary sources collected the required information. 1.Primary source: Questionnaire, Personal interview. 2. Secondary source: Company website, related information from Internet, journals, Textbook, Newspapers, etc. Sample Selection Method: Regarding to my project sample size is 100 and the sample target customers are those people who visit the company’s showroom and by random sampling...
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...Even once a person realizes he or she has a passion for information security, moving in the field can seem a daunting task. The education market is oversaturated with degrees, certifications, and training programs. Meanwhile, many prominent hackers mock those programs publicly. Although I’ve touched on security education and training quite a bit, I’m continually asked to provide a resource for people who are trying to transition from school or other fields into Information Security roles. Ours is a healthy job market and we do need qualified and motivated applicants. The jobs exist, but we repeatedly see candidates being given false advice to get them. With tremendous and very much appreciated help from many of my colleagues and friends in the field, I have endeavored to compile a comprehensive blog about starting an InfoSec career. This is a very lengthy blog broken into sections that may help people as parts or as a whole. We want you to succeed in our field. As always, please feel free to ask questions or leave comments / gripes / suggestions. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals Unfortunately, for all the interminable hacking tool tutorials and security guides floating around the internet, many InfoSec job candidates haven’t grasped two fundamental concepts: * To hack something (or defend it from hacking), you must have a solid understanding of how that thing works. And, * InfoSec is not a career that can be put in a box once you go home from work or school. You must be...
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...2014 ANNUAL REPORT FY14 PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS REVENUE NET PROFIT Revenue up 2% to $578 million with strong growth in Bathrooms & Kitchens (excluding Hot Water) Net profit after tax of $18.6 million impacted by one-off significant items TRADING EBIT DIVIDENDS Trading earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) up 8% on the prior period to $72.3 million Fully franked final dividend of 5.5 cents per share to be paid in October 2014 STRATEGIC REVIEW COMPLETED SUBJECT TO SUCCESSFUL DIVESTMENT with focus on core Bathrooms & Kitchens and Door & Access Systems businesses and divestment of non-core businesses – Dux Hot Water and Brivis Heating & Cooling of Dux and Brivis, capital return options to shareholders will be reviewed $578 million $18.6 million $72.3 million 5.5 cents DWELLING COMPLETIONS rise only 4% on a moving annual total basis year on year to March 2014 CONTENTS Five Year Financial Summary 1 GWA Heating & Cooling 14 Company Profile and Our Mission 2 Board of Directors 16 Chairman’s Review 4 Corporate Governance Statement 18 Managing Director’s Review of Operations 6 Directors’ Report 28 Health and Safety 10 Financial Report 43 GWA Bathrooms & Kitchens 12 Other Statutory Information 90 GWA Door & Access Systems 13 Shareholder Information 91 FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL SUMMARY 2009/10 $’000 2010/11 $’000 2011/12 ...
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...thank the Oxford University Engineering Sciences Department and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology for hosting the “Machines and Employment” Workshop. We are indebted to Stuart Armstrong, Nick Bostrom, Eris Chinellato, Mark Cummins, Daniel Dewey, David Dorn, Alex Flint, Claudia Goldin, John Muellbauer, Vincent Mueller, Paul Newman, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Anders Sandberg, Murray Shanahan, and Keith Woolcock for their excellent suggestions. † Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom, carl.frey@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk. ‡ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom, mosb@robots.ox.ac.uk. ∗ 1 I. I NTRODUCTION In this paper, we address the question: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?...
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...501 Word Analogy Questions 501 Word Analogy Questions ® N E W YO R K Copyright © 2002 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 501 word analogy questions / LearningExpress.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-422-1 1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Vocabulary—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1591 .A24 2002 428.1'076—dc21 2002006843 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First Edition ISBN 1-57685-422-1 For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com The LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team is comprised of experts in test preparation, as well as educators and teachers who specialize in language arts and math. LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team Brigit Dermott Freelance Writer English Tutor, New York Cares New York, New York Sandy Gade Project Editor LearningExpress New York, New York Kerry McLean Project Editor Math Tutor Shirley, New York William Recco Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Shoreham/Wading River School District Math Tutor St. James, New York Colleen Schultz Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Vestal Central School District ...
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...professional experience. It is presented in good faith. Although the authors and the publisher have made every reasonable effort to make the information presented accurate and authoritative, they do not warrant, and assume no liability for, its accuracy or completeness or fitness for any specific purpose. The information is intended primarily as a learning and teaching aid, and not as a final source of information for the design of building systems by design professionals. It is the responsibility of users to apply their professional knowledge in the application of the information presented in this book, and to consult original sources for current and detailed information as needed, for actual design situations. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2006 by John Wiley and Sons. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance...
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...Chapter 12 • Chapter 13 • Chapter 14 • Chapter 15 • Chapter 16 • Chapter 17 • Chapter 18 • Chapter 19 • Chapter 20 • Chapter 21 • Chapter 22 • Chapter 23 • Chapter 24 • Chapter 25 • Chapter 26 • Chapter 27 • Chapter 28 • Chapter 29 • Chapter 30 • Chapter 31 • Chapter 32 • Chapter 33 • Chapter 34 • Chapter 35 • Chapter 36 • Chapter 37 • Chapter 38 • Chapter 39 • Chapter 40 • Chapter 41 • About the Arthor The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 1 The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. The Firm had never hired an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white, and The Firm had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, The Firm was in Memphis, of all places, and the top blacks wanted...
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...Creative Problem Solving for Managers Second edition How can managers tackle complex problems? How do you encourage innovation? How do you implement new solutions? Is creativity the key to management success? This accessible text provides a lively introduction to the essential skills of creative problem solving. Using extensive case studies and examples from a variety of business situations, Creative Problem Solving for Managers explores a wide range of problem solving theories and techniques, illustrating how these can be used to solve a multitude of management problems. Thoroughly revised and redesigned, this new edition retains the accessible and imaginative approach to problem solving skills of the first edition. Features include: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Blocks to creativity and how to overcome them Key techniques including lateral thinking, morphological analysis and synectics Computer-assisted problem solving Increased coverage of group problem solving techniques New website containing in-depth cases and a PowerPoint presentation As creativity is increasingly being recognised as a key skill for successful managers, this book will be welcomed as a readable and comprehensive introduction for students and practising managers alike. Tony Proctor is Professor in Marketing at Chester University College Business School and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Head of the Department of Management at Keele University. Creative Problem Solving for Managers Developing skills...
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