...As David Mankin mentioned in his book, “Inevitably globalization is having a huge impact on the role, nature, and purpose of HRD in organizations of all sizes and sectors across the world” (2009). Obviously, facing the economical globalization, development of technology, the coming of information age and lowering of trade barriers, as a result firms have to think of new and effective ideas to compete with other competitors. Human capital is the most special asset of a company. It is special because people cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health, or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets (Becker, 2008). The result, organizations’ aim is to make their own human capital special that other organizations cannot copy. Competitive advantage is secured when organizations have skills and capabilities that are unique, difficult to replicate and imitate by competitors (Rainbird, 1995). HRD is a process of developing and unleashing human expertise through organization development, personnel training and development for the purpose of improving performance (Swanson & Holton, 2001). McCracken and Wallace have mentioned in their article that, organizations should ensure any investment which is made in human capital with the promotion of HRD strategy is clearly linked to the wider corporate strategy (2000). Strategic approach to HRD is a relative new concept in HRD and training and development fields. It is not a traditional training...
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...to it, and this is exactly what these researchers have been examining—both scientifically and psychologically. A few German Researchers have found that gamers, who played Super Mario 64 (for a half hour each day for 60 days), “had a rise in gray matter in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum”. All of these areas in the brain help with these gamers’ memories and recollections. With the continuous motions of the hands, and eyes on the game, these gamers are developing great hand-eye coordination which may benefit them in their lives outside of gaming versus if they had not played any of their video games. Psychological tests conducted by Queen Mary University and the University College London have shown that those gamers who played either “Starcraft” or “The Sims” (for forty hours between six and eight weeks) were able to complete even more complex cognitive tasks at a much faster rate than before and with a much greater accuracy rating. The researchers have noted that due to the consistency of movement on the screen, and the attentiveness to the video game, helps improve these cognitive skills and the accuracy at which things are noticed all due to playing a video game. Many of these researchers have also found that gaming slows the aging process. It has been proven that if gamers play “brain-teasing” games for just two hours per week may help strengthen cognition and memory, thus “slow the degree of mental decay associated with the...
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...Whistleblowing: Necessary Evil or Good Thing Maureen Haley University of North Carolina – Asheville April 16, 2014 This paper was prepared for Management 484-001, taught by Professor Donald D. Lisnerski Whistleblowing: Necessary Evil or Good Thing Is whistleblowing a necessary evil or good thing? Can whistleblowing be avoided? Can the whistleblower be protected? “A whistleblower is an employee who discovers corporate misconduct and chooses to bring it to the attention of others.”(Ghillyer, 2014) Whistleblowers can be viewed as providing a praiseworthy act or be severely labeled as informers who have breached the loyalty of their co-workers and company. Whistleblowing can be a service to the community and public. Whistleblowing can be ethical or unethical, and the whistleblower discovering corporate misconduct has the options to be an internal or an external whistleblower. Whistleblowing can save people’s lives. Dr. Jeffrey Wigand made the decision to go public with information that his employer Brown & Williamson (B&W) was manipulating the nicotine content, suppressed efforts to develop safer cigarettes, and lied about the addictive properties of nicotine. According to Sissela Bok, in the book Taking Sides: Clashing views in Business Ethics and Society, “not only is loyalty violated in whistleblowing, hierarchy as well is often opposed, since the whistleblower is not only a colleague but a subordinate. Though aware of the risks inherent in such disobedience...
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...performance of staff and the outcome of the patient care quality. Prior to this assignment, leadership analysis will be provided, which is influence on working environment and the outcome of patient care in my unit. Following by literature reviewed on comparison between transactional and transformational leadership. Manoeuvre in supervise change and direction to convert work culture will be considered and last but not least this paper will conclude its point of view on leadership and its influence on team efficiency. At first, I am a stated register nurse with 5 years of an experience in Intensive care unit in a private sector hospital and graduated from one of the well-known nursing university of Malaysia. Currently, I am pursuing my study Bachelor of Nursing with local university in collaboration with one of UK University. Presently, I am working in 12 beds of multi discipline Intensive care unit. There are one nursing supervisor, one senior staff nurse, 26 staff nurses and 3 hospital attendants. Since I started working in this unit about 5 years ago, I realise that patient in this unit easily getting Hospital Acquired infection which is cause by poor working culture that actually affecting patient care. In general manner, the unit was facing a lot of complaints and getting high rate of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia to patient who is on long term of ventilator support. Similarly, poor term work also appears in this unit due to all selfish behaviour. When there was an...
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...blamed many accidents caused by children or teenagers on them being able to play violent games. Many of these include, anger from call of duty competitiveness as well as more dangerous ones like shooting and robbing shops due to some effects of gta (grand theft auto) .These are of course due to speculation the papers have no proof that this is the case they say that games are the problem when they are not the problem it is mostly due to the fact that the children have access to a gun in the first place or their parents our bringing them up in a rough way or getting peer pressured into doing theses certain acts. This is a prime example of the papers speculating: The study is called “violent video games do not cause teens to become aggressive” ‘An 8-year-old in Louisiana shot and killed his grandmother. The incident has sparked new flames in the ongoing U.S. gun control debate, but the familiar scapegoat of violence in video games is also being connected to the murder.’ ‘With the release of Grand Theft Auto V, discussions of the impact of video games on minors will certainly be in the news for months to come. A study published this year, however, is contradicting common assumptions about violent...
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...1 National Goods and Services Tax Bill, 2014 introduced in Lok Sabha It is also called Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill It seeks to introduce Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime Inserts article Articles 246A, 269A and 279A in the Constitution Provides for Union Finance Minister headed GST Council Sets in a uniform and integrated indirect tax regime in India 14th Finance Commission submitted its report to President It covers the period between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2020 The Commission headed by former RBI Governor Y V Reddy Provides for devolution of tax receipts from the Centre to the States Article 280 of Constitution provides for appointment of Finance Commission First and 13th Finance Commission was headed by K C Neogy & Dr Vijay Kelkar resp. Union government decriminalized Attempt to Suicide For this purpose Section 309 of Indian Penal Code removed 20th Law Commission headed by Justice A P Shah recommended in its 210 Report 210th Report on Humanization and Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide France was the first country to decriminalize this offence Lok Sabha passed the Repealing and Amending (Second) Bill, 2014 Introduced as a periodic measure for updating the list of laws in force Seeks to repeal 90 laws and pass amendment to two laws Proposes to amend the two laws to rectify typographical errors The laws are Railways...
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...A Position Against Standardized Testing I am a mother of two elementary school age kids, Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) board member, and actively involved in my children’s education. I have often asked why there is so much emphasis on standardized tests. Growing up, we took standardized tests but there was no real preparation work or stress over the test. We didn’t even know until the week prior that we had testing coming up. Back then teachers taught and engaged their students in learning all subjects because they loved teaching. We learned not only what was minimally acceptable to pass a standardized test, but much more beyond the testing requirements. I am very interested about high stake standardized testing in our public school system because it seems my children’s curriculum is solely based on concepts they need to learn to pass their standardized test. Rather than teaching to our children who are eager to learn how to be higher-level thinkers, we seem to be teaching them to accept a minimal standard and simply learn how to pass a test. Today, I see our children being given pretests and benchmark tests to see how well they will do on the standardized test. I witness teachers under pressure to make sure they get the curriculum in prior to the test and students being drilled repeatedly for the standardized tests. Our children come home stressed and concerned because in some states, these tests can determine if you are from moving to the next grade level,...
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...01-Aug-2014 Politics India President congratulates medal winners at CWG President of India Pranab Mukherjee has congratulated the Indian players who won the medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014. He gave his best wishes to Bijneesh Bajrang, Lalita, Navjot Kaur, Swati Singh and Lalita for their accomplishments in CWG. He wrote separate letters and said that the achievement of the players has proved that the Indian sportsmen are capable of reaching the top at the international level. 01-Aug-2014 Science and Technology Croma & Intel launch Windows 8.1 2-in-1 PC Croma & Intel have jointly launched two Windows 8.1-based devices – a 10.1-inch 2-in-1 PC with an attached keyboard, along with a tablet with 8-inch display feature. The 10-inch model will be available at a price of Rs 21,990 while the 8-inch model will be priced at Rs 13,990. The 8-inch tablet will only be available in the Croma outlets and the retail site of the company only. 01-Aug-2014 Sports Dipa Karmakar creates history for India in CWG After winning the Bronze medal in the artistic gymnastics event, Dipa Karmakar has created a history by becoming the first Indian woman and the second player from the country. Karmarkar collected 14.366 points to finish the third in the women’s vault final.England’s Claudia Fragapane bagged the gold medal with 14.633 and Silver went to Elsabeth Black. 01-Aug-2014 Business Jet Airways offers tickets for as low as Rs 1,499 Jet Airways declared a discounted...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction Background of The Study MBA curriculum is highly focused on mixture of theoretical and practical studies. As part of the MBA course it is essential that the student submits a comprehensive study during the Internship period and prepare and present a study report. As part of that the study topic was decided in consultation of the supervisor as “Performance Analysis of Grameenphone for The Year 2009”. Under the scope of the topic a comprehensive study was done on Grameenphone which is presented in this paper. Statement of the problem: The major objective of a business firm is to increase the wealth of its shareholders. Financials of a firm is the mirror of the ultimate performance of a firm besides its brand preference and some other indices. Even the other indices are used to assure the profitability in both short and long term. The study dealt with the financial indices to indentify the strength, weakness and opportunity for the company and tried to recommend some improvement scope from the theoretical perspective. This study aims to see the performance of Grameenphone for 2009 in various indices. Objective of the study: Telecom is the most discussed industry in Bangladesh due to its nature of touching people’s life. Grameenphone Limited is the distinct market leader with more than 43% subscriber market share. In 2009 the company came into the pick of the discussion of local business environment as it went for the IPO which was the largest in the...
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...The Real Ebonics Debate What Should Teachers Do? By Lisa Delpit The "Ebonics Debate" has created much more heat than light for most of the country. For teachers trying to determine what implications there might be for classroom practice, enlightenment has been a completely non-existent commodity. I have been asked often enough recently, "What do you think about Ebonics? Are you for it or against it?" My answer must be neither. I can be neither for Ebonics or against Ebonics any more than I can be for or against air. It exists. It is the language spoken by many of our African-American children. It is the language they heard as their mothers nursed them and changed their diapers and played peek-a-boo with them. It is the language through which they first encountered love, nurturance and joy. On the other hand, most teachers of those African-American children who have been least well-served by educational systems believe that their students' life chances will be further hampered if they do not learn Standard English. In the stratified society in which we live, they are absolutely correct. While having access to the politically mandated language form will not, by any means, guarantee economic success (witness the growing numbers of unemployed African Americans holding doctorates), not having access will almost certainly guarantee failure. So what must teachers do? Should they spend their time relentlessly "correcting" their Ebonics-speaking children's language so that it might...
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...CASE STUDY 1: FLAT CARGO BERHAD: AN AUDITOR’S CONUNDRUM A. INTRODUCTION OF THE CASE There are many puzzling issues that could occur in the process of auditing a listed company. These issues could be created either intentionally or the other way around. Therefore, an objective analysis is needed to clear the puzzles especially if the auditors wish to curb fraud cases among their clients. In the case of Flat Cargo Berhad (FCB), the auditor has found some inconsistencies in the accounts of FCB. Thus, a case study is conducted to bring the hidden mystery to the light as possible. Based on the study, a report was written to summarise the situation. The aspects that were given highlights in the report included the issues contributing to those inconsistencies and the possible reasons that have led to this situation. Based on the identified problematic issues, several possible solutions have been suggested to overcome the said problems. Finally, an objective conclusion is made to make a stand about the given case study. This is important as it could facilitate the auditor to make an appropriate decision for the said case. B. COMPANY BACKGROUND Flat Cargo Berhad (FCB) was established in 1997 as the mean of providing air freight services to the Intra-Asia air market. FCB’s services were not only limited to air freight and aircraft ground handling but also included aircraft charter and leasing. FCB was chaired by Dato’ Ibrahim Samad...
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...Chapter two The Evolution of Management Theory Learning Objectives 1. Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness has guided the evolution of management theory. 2. Explain the principle of job specialization and division of labour, and tell why the study of person–task relationships is central to the pursuit of increased efficiency. 3. Identify the principles of administration and organization that underlie effective organizations. 4. Trace the changes that have occurred in theories about how managers should behave in order to motivate and control employees. 5. Explain the contributions of management science to the efficient use of organizational resources. 6. Explain why the study of the external environment and its impact on an organization has become a central issue in management thought. A Case in Contrast Changing Ways of Making Cars Car production has changed dramatically over the years as managers have applied different views or philosophies of management to organize and control work activities. Prior to 1900, workers worked in small groups, cooperating to hand-build cars with parts that often had to be altered and modified to fit together. This system, a type of small-batch production, was very expensive; assembling just one car took considerable time and effort; and workers could produce only a few cars in a day. To reduce costs and sell more cars, managers of early car companies needed better techniques to increase efficiency. Henry...
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...Ailes: president of Fox News Channel Doug Aitken: multimedia artist Muhammad Ali: professional heavyweight boxer, three-time World Heavyweight Champion John Allman: neuroscientist, expert on human cognition Gloria Allred: civil rights attorney Brad Anderson: former CEO of Best Buy Chris Anderson: curator of TED conferences Philip Anschutz: entrepreneur, cofounder of Major League Soccer, investor in multiple professional sports teams David Ansen: former senior entertainment editor at Newsweek Rose Apodaca: pop culture, fashion, and style journalist Bernard Arnault: chairman and CEO of LVMH Rebecca Ascher-Walsh: journalist, author Isaac Asimov: science fiction author Reza Aslan: scholar of religious studies, author Tony Attwood:psychologist, author of books on Asperger’s syndrome Lesley Bahner: responsible for advertising and motivational research for the...
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...Michael Trusov, Randolph E. Bucklin, & Koen Pauwels Effects of Word-of-Mouth Versus Traditional Marketing: Findings from an Internet Social Networking Site The authors study the effect of word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing on member growth at an Internet social networking site and compare it with traditional marketing vehicles. Because social network sites record the electronic invitations from existing members, outbound WOM can be precisely tracked. Along with traditional marketing, WOM can then be linked to the number of new members subsequently joining the site (sign-ups). Because of the endogeneity among WOM, new sign-ups, and traditional marketing activity, the authors employ a vector autoregression (VAR) modeling approach. Estimates from the VAR model show that WOM referrals have substantially longer carryover effects than traditional marketing actions and produce substantially higher response elasticities. Based on revenue from advertising impressions served to a new member, the monetary value of a WOM referral can be calculated; this yields an upper-bound estimate for the financial incentives the firm might offer to stimulate WOM. Keywords: word-of-mouth marketing, Internet, social networks, vector autoregression Michael Trusov is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (e-mail: mtrusov@rhsmith. umd.edu). Randolph E. Bucklin is Peter W. Mullin Professor of Marketing, Anderson School of Management, University...
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...sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://jsr.sagepub.com/content/13/4/426.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 24, 2010 OnlineFirst Version of Record - May 21, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from jsr.sagepub.com by guest on May 7, 2012 Job Characteristics and the Creativity of Frontline Service Employees ´rio Augusto1 Filipe Coelho1 and Ma Journal of Service Research 13(4) 426-438 ª The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1094670510369379 http://jsr.sagepub.com Abstract This study investigates the main and interactive effects of job characteristics on the creativity of frontline service employees. Past research investigates the link between job complexity, an index measure of job characteristics, and employee creativity. This study follows a component-wise approach in studying the influence of each job characteristic on the creativity of employees. The approach overcomes a number of limitations such as the sole reliance on the intrinsic motivation rationale. In addition, we conduct this research in services, whereas past research has focused...
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