...coaching the applicant to request a higher salary, did the project manager work against the interests of the client organization by which he or she is employed? Why or why not? The project manager not only has to look out for the company that he works for but also for the overall health of the project assigned. Finding qualified personnel to fill specialized positions is not an easy process, and dismissing candidates for minor lapses, inters the company to a lengthy hiring period. The research the applicant studied before the interview should have also carried over into job statistics. There are several places online where to find the going rate for the job, factor in years of experience, education, company size and location (Augustine, 2012). The project manager has the discretion to hire who he feels to be the best fit for the team, there is the possibility that this candidate had a very impressive resume and did very well during the interview, prompting the coaching when the applicant made the offer far below the industry standard. There might be several reasons other than the lack of knowledge the applicant put a lower bid in. For example, maybe the applicant just moved to the area where the rates are different or just graduated from college, and the amount stated is twice as much as the last internship. The company might have complained that they would save money by hiring the applicant for that price, but as soon as work starts, the applicant was sure to find out...
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...as the use of survey method are more pertained to the positivist paradigm as it shares features with the paradigm including a high degree of control over responses, use of statistics both for descriptive and for determining relationships and researchers being detached by adopting the role of an objective and passive informant. Other aims of generating insights on the two selected concepts, collecting information from respondents' frame of reference, focusing on the whole institutional setting and the use of semi-structured interview are more pertained to the interpretive paradigm. It is because the design focuses on the subjective meanings of respondents, the reasons for observable behaviours, and finally the researcher being involved by taking the role of active collaborators. However, as the study is limited to a particular setting, it does not share the aims of generalization and discovering universal laws of the positivist paradigm. Similarly, the interview part focuses on...
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...February 3, 2014 8:29:57 AM CST6 days ago ED7590 Discussion 6d1 This post required a peer-reviewed journal article be selected from the Capella Library. The chosen article was about a descriptive study completed of nine states and the Funding support for school-wide positive behavioral interventions and support implementation and scale-up. This article examines the major focus and the difficulty states face with the process of selecting, implementing, and scaling-up evidence-based practices. The article also contains a discussion about the renewed commitment to improving student outcomes and how that has led directly to the need for effective practices implemented at scale (Gage et. Al, 2013). In particular, this article examines the funding decisions of nine specific states and makes note that funding decisions made at state, regional, and district levels remain a key to large-scale implementation of effective practices (Gage et. Al, 2013). No one will argue that the main objective of education in the United States is to offer all students a free and suitable public education so they may become active and vital members and contributors to society. However, the process involved in funding education to achieve this goal is a very complex one mainly because it includes interests, policies, and dollars originating from and flowing among local education agencies (LEAs), state education agencies (SEAs), and federal government agencies (e.g., U.S. Departments of Education...
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...CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION In the increasing competitive environment of this day and age, establishments are developing a variety of strategies in order to outsmart their competitors and to become preferable by consumers, and are making a serious effort for this objective. One of the most important competition weapons of establishments against their competitors is their brand. If establishments manage to create brand loyalty among consumers, they can surpass their competitors with minimum costs. Thus, establishments will be able to reach their short term and long term goals with lower costs, less effort and in a shorter period of time compared to their competitors. Technological advancement has changed the outlook of obtaining and delivering quality education-making the use of laptops and other digital dairies the integral part of today’s student’s study kit. Irrespective of the geographic location or the economic situation, no matter which economy of the world we talk about, the number of users of digital dairies are increasing at a rapid speed. Most of the products being sold in the market today are identified by their names. The name which helps the buyers in recalling the product instantly is known as brand name. It creates an image in the minds of perspective buyers. It is for the purpose of identification of product, it becomes more crucial in the consumer durable market where buying decisions of the consumers are based on the brand perception. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM...
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...Attendance Policy Change Staff shortages are a problem in all health care organizations. In the organization this paper will be referring to absenteeism has been an ongoing problem for quite some time. There is a noted increase in staff absence on weekends; this directly affects staff morale and patient care. Staff calls out for many reasons to include illness, family emergencies, car trouble, and many others that they do not explain. The current policy does not provide any reward for those who do not call out and does not offer any repercussions for those who do. The normal staff to patient ratio is 15 to 1 for nursing assistants and 10 to 1 for nurses. When staff do not come to work as they are scheduled that ratio can go up exponentially. When these shortages occur the risk for injury to staff as well as residents increases as well as staff burnout. The organization currently has no plan in place to deal with staffing shortages. The company has labor pool staff that staff 41 buildings so they are not always available when one building has a last-minute need. The organization is large with a defined corporate structure that must approve all policy change and with corporate existing in a separate building getting their approval will require getting their understanding of the problem. The staff initially will resist the change because it will mean that if they call out on the weekend they will be required to make up that shift and at first they...
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...Naila Nadeem PH1Y2-3 “The Miracle Worker” At first someone asked us, “How does a person identify that a certain thing is color red nor that person can’t see and can’t hear?” I shocked out and left me thinking how that person knows that. So my professor let us watched a film titled, “The Miracle Worker”. The film implies a child who has that kind of disability. My first impression, I was a little amazed and sad. Amazed because even though she has that kind of sickness, she used her other senses just to identify that kind of object. Example: When she touches her eyes, nose and mouth then she hold her doll, (she knows that object is like a human) she noticed that the parts of that certain doll is incomplete so that’s why she looked for an object that can be used as an eye of her doll. I was also sad because I know that she will grow up without knowing visually how beauty and wonderful does our nature have. So when the movie goes by, I was annoyed to his dad because he is keep telling to his wife that she has no hope. But Kate (mother of Helen) pleased him because she do believe that she still have chances to act normal even her sickness is permanent. Until they met a woman named Annie. She taught Helen how to grow up normal and how to communicate to other people even she has a disability. She said that even though she have no senses of sight and hear, she still have other senses like sense of touch, smell and taste. On that way, she still may identify that kind of an object...
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...1. Introduction With the development of urbanization, immigrants become one of the special and important parts of metropolises. The issue of their integration into local society has become a new topic for many researchers. Especially in China, with the thirty years of reform and open relations, a huge number of domestic immigrants have migrated into the big urban areas. They are facing many obstacles in their struggle to make a position in a new environment. Is there anything that the urban planners and designers can do to help them blend into the society and give them a sense of belonging and identity? This research will make efforts to address this question and discuss the relation between immigrants and urban environments, particularly the public open spaces by a series of research methodologies. Some literatures will be reviewed and discussed to give a general understanding of the relation between urbanisation and immigrants and the effects of public open space. Then, in order to narrow the research scope, the investigation of immigrants’ social integration condition will be conducted in Guangzhou which is one of the most developed metropolises in China with large amounts of domestic immigrants. Moreover, the white-collar immigrants were chosen as the main research target group. In general, “white-collar” refers to a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar...
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...ABSTRACT Shards of Memories, Fragments of Sorrows: Mothertongue Transforming Spaces Occupied by Women in South Africa through Theatre This paper sets out to explore how processes of theatre making employed by The Mothertongue project, provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Mothertongue works from the premise that the development and subsequent performance of stories in theatrical processes affords women the opportunity to re-write and remap their personal narratives and in so doing insert their voices into the landscape of South African Theatre. In an attempt to redress the gender imbalances and androcentricism prevalent in post-apartheid theatre, this paper speaks to the relationship between theatre, liminality and communitas. I am interested in unpacking how collaborative processes of theatre-making provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Remapping in this instance refers to processes of transforming lived experience through story. I address how, through engaging in ritual activities that are central to the stories performed, actors, audiences and the owners of the source stories are invited to physically participate in remapping and transforming lived experience. Linked to this is the choice of form(s) and how this affects or impacts on the performed stories as well as on the construction of performed rituals and ultimately on the processes of remapping personal narratives. I focus specifically on Mothertongue’s 2004...
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...however, evidence suggests that America should support building more nuclear power plants because nuclear power is a safe, economic and environmentally sound energy source. In exploring the safety aspects of nuclear power generation, we find that one of the most prevalent reasons that people are opposed to nuclear plant construction is their fear of the risks that are associated with radiation exposure. When nuclear power is generated, material is produced that emits radiation. This material can come into contact with people during routine power plant operation. In addition, radiation can be released during nuclear power plant accidents, and transportation of nuclear material. As described by University of Pittsburgh Professor Bernard Cohen, “radiation exposure can damage biological cells and thereby initiate a cancer and cause genetic diseases”. To further reinforce people’s opposition to nuclear power plants due to the potential release of radiation, and the subsequent exposure to the environment, there have been three notable nuclear incidents over the past 35 years. One incident took place in the United States in 1979 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. The second incident occurred in Russia in 1986,...
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...strategy employed. Name: Joshua Seyram Amoah 15785702 Date: 27 April 2011. 1.0 ABSTRACT The purpose of this project work is to investigate and understand the relationship between the organizational goal of PZ Cussons and the operations strategy employed in driving towards the achievement of this goal, at the end of this paper we should be able to conclusively deduce how successful this strategy was and the impacts of it on the organization. A wide variety of information sources will be used for this project work, however the primary source of information and data will be provided in PZ Cussons, 2010 Annual Report (PZ Cussons, 2010a) and from interviews with staff from PZ Cussons Ghana (Awotwe, E. and Amofa, B., 2011). Other materials will be employed such as books, internet sources, journal articles, media articles, and interviews, these sources will be used to support the discussion and assist in arriving at a conclusion concerning the success or failure of implementing that operations strategy. 2.0 BACKGROUND. PZ Cussons was established by Messer’s George Paterson and George Zochonis in 1879 as a trading post in Sierra Leone and named Paterson Zochonis. The company’s primary focus was the export of West African produce (palm products, nuts, etc.) into Europe through the United Kingdom and vice versa. In line with the company’s philosophy of buying the best produce at the best prices it expanded its operations into nearby West African colonies starting with Nigeria in 1899...
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...Teachers’ College of Jamaica The effects of the Cooperative Learning Strategies on students’ performance in Science By Jason Smith-Samuels SJTC20102990 A Research Proposal submitted to the department of Professional Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Education in Primary Education. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction………………………………………………………………………….4 Background and Statement of the problem……………………………………………………4-5 The purpose of the study………………………………………………………………………5-6 Research questions……………………………………………………………………………6 Operational Definitions………………………………………………………………………6-7 Delimitations……………………………………………………………………………………7 Limitations…………………………………………………………………………………….7 Significance of the study……………………………………………………………………7-8 Theoretical base……………………………………………………………………………….8-9 Chapter 2: Review of literature….…………………………………………………..………10-14 Chapter 3: Methodology and procedure……………………………………..…………………15 Role of the researcher…………………………………………………………..………………16 Population and sample………………………………………………………………………16-17 Description of action plan………………………………………………………………….17-18 Data collection………………………………………………………………………………18 Data presentation analysis……………………………………………………………………19 Methods of verification………………………………………………………………………19 Ethical issues…………………………………………………………………………………19 Time line……………………………………………………………………………………..20 Summary…………………………………………………………………………….………21 List of references……………………………………………………………………………22-25 ...
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...substance-use disorders (SUD) have been found in samples of adolescents and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Predictors of SUD in children with ADHD who are at risk for the development of SUDs remain understudied. The main aims of this study were to identify clinically meaningful characteristics of children that predicted the future development of SUDs and to see whether the role of these characteristics varied by sex. Method: Subjects were children and adolescents with (n 268; mean age standard deviation 10.9 3.2 years) and without (n 229; mean age 11.9 3.3 years) DSM-III-R ADHD followed prospectively and blindly over a 10-year follow-up period onto young adult years. Subjects were assessed with structured diagnostic interviews for psychopathology and SUDs. Results: Over the 10-year follow-up period, ADHD was found to be a significant predictor of any SUD (hazards ratio 1.47; 95% confidence interval 1.07–2.02; p .01) and cigarette smoking (2.38; 1.61–3.53; p .01). Within ADHD, comorbid conduct disorder (2.74; 1.66 – 4.52; p .01) and oppositional defiant disorder (2.21; 1.40 –3.51; p .01) at baseline were also found to be significant predictors of SUDs. Similar results were found for cigarette-, alcohol-, and drug-use disorders. There were few meaningful sex interaction effects. No clinically significant associations were found for any social or family environment factors or for cognitive functioning factors (p .05 for all comparisons). Conclusions: These results indicate...
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...Innocent Drinks makes smoothies, juice and veg pots, sold in supermarkets, coffee shops and various other outlets. The company sells over two million smoothies per week.[1] Innocent is 58% owned by The Coca-Cola Company. Contents[hide] * 1 History * 2 Products * 3 Innocent Foundation * 4 Controversy * 4.1 Product recall * 4.2 Advertising claims * 4.3 Charitable donations * 5 References * 6 External links | [edit] History Innocent was founded by three Cambridge University graduates, Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, then working in consulting and advertising. The three were friends at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1999, after spending six months working on smoothie recipes and £500 on fruit, the trio sold their drinks from a stall at a music festival in London. People were asked to put their empty bottles in a 'yes' or 'no' bin depending on whether they thought the three should quit their jobs to make smoothies. At the end of the festival the 'YES' bin was full, with only three cups in the 'NO' bin, so they went to their work the next day and resigned. After quitting their jobs, the three struggled to find investment, but eventually had a lucky break when Maurice Pinto, a wealthy American businessman, decided to invest £250,000.[2] In total, it took fifteen months from the initial idea to taking the product to market.[3] On 6 April 2009, Innocent Drinks announced on its website an agreement to sell a stake of 10-20% to The Coca-Cola Company...
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...8-week Pre-sessional Research Essay 15th August 2012 To What Extent is Negative Heritage a Benefit to Society？ UCL Language Centre Student: QIFAN WANG Tutor: MARK BAILEY Date: 16/08/2012 Word count: 1854 words Introduction Cultural heritage, including monuments, groups of buildings and sites, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science(1972, UNESCO Convention World Heritage), is inherited from past generations, maintained in the contemporary era and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. While seemingly uncontroversial and due to its significant position and profoundly influential value, human beings are exploring ancient civilization and preserving cultural heritage. However, we should recognize that not all heritage represents a positive memory , the uncritical interpretation of heritage is indeed omit negative factors of the past. In order to distinguish heritage more thoroughly, we use the term “negative heritage” which is defined as sites that may be interpreted by a group as commemorating conflict, trauma and disaster (Rico 2010), more specifically, Meskell deems that negative heritage is a conflicting site that becomes the repository of negative memory in the collective imaginary (Meskell 2002, 558). Unlike other heritage which can win widespread appreciation and permanent admiration, negative heritage refers to death, wars, religious conflicts and culture clashes. Controversies of...
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...INTRODUCTION Much of the literature about the liberation struggle in the South-East Lowveld has documented different counter strategies by the RSF but propaganda as one of the strategy has been partially covered. The study focuses on Rhodesia Front government’s propaganda as a counter insurgency strategy to the guerrilla activities. Propaganda is the control of public opinion. There are three types of propaganda that is white, grey and black propaganda. White propaganda is the dissemination of the truth to someone’s advantage, grey propaganda is the mixture of lies and truth and black propaganda consists of largely but not total lies. All these types were exploited upon implementation of propaganda at different levels through different tactics. Psychological operations which were executed as forms of propaganda involved planned use of communication through words, symbols and actions to influence the behaviour of the targeted audiences and achieve set objectives. The government’s use of propaganda warfare was prompted by a number of reasons which ranged from economic, political, social and military factors. It is worth noting here that, the tempo and conduct of the war varied from one locality to the other depending on the terrain and proximity to strategical areas like borders, transport networks and close to government’s administrative offices. The study is presented in three chapters. The first chapter outlines the reasons for the introduction of propaganda warfare in Chilonga...
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