...Media in Mexican National Identity: The use of Mexican national symbol “La Virgen de Guadalupe” to unite the country. Nowadays, Mexico is facing one of its hardest periods of all times. As the drug war is taking control over the whole country, other major problems such as insecurity, unemployment and poverty are taking part of Mexicans lifestyle. This had lead to a series of internal problems that have caused the population to distrust the government and try to find a solution to all these problems from a different source: faith. Mexico’s national identity has always been recognized as being one of the strongest and most distinguished identities in the world, with a united and rich culture, full of beliefs, memories, history and symbols; Mexican culture was something Mexicans always felt very proud about. But with such problems affecting the country, Mexico needs more than ever maintain this feeling of feeling proud about being Mexicans, to start being positive about things getting better and continue improving in order grow and share their culture they are very proud about. The media is always playing an important role in Mexican’s lifestyle. In this case, we choose to make the example of Mexican Television and how it has played an important role reinforcing national identity with a known Mexican symbol “ The Virgin of Guadalupe”, a symbol that is full of history and which has united Mexicans before. We will analyze the way that the media in Mexico has taken this religious...
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...relations system? The scope of Ministry of Human Resources in the industrial relations system encompass employee and workers state of safety, health and welfare and human resource matters such as training, employment, labour rights and industrial relations. It includes the PERKESO (Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial), PSMB (Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad), JTM (Jabatan Tenaga Malaysia), JKKP (Jabatan Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerja). The role of the Human Resources Ministry is to encourage harmonious relationships between employers and employees in the interest of the nation’s productivity. The objective of Human Resource Ministry in the industrial relations is: • To protect the welfare of the employees-safety, and rights • To promote good employer-employee relationship through a stable and peaceful Industrial Relations system • To equip the unemployed with basic industrial skills and to improve the skill level of the workforce • To assist in maximizing country’s manpower resources through manpower planning • Department of Labour, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak-enforces Employment Act 1955, Workmen’s Compensation Act 1952, Wages Council Act 1947, Young Persons Act 1966, Employment Restriction Act 1968 and Workers Minimum Standards of Housing & Amenities Act 1990. It also settles disputes between employers and employee over payment/non-payment of wages, retrenchment and retirement benefits. The parties’ involved in the industrial relations system comprises...
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...Discuss the reasons why the EU was awarded the Peace Nobel Prize in 2012. Did the EU deserve the award? In this essay we will be discussing on how the EU has come about since its first came about and the successes and failures it has had since then. Then we will be linking this to what the Nobel peace prize is and try and explain on the reasons the EU has been awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2012, and evaluate to discuss on if the EU deserved the award. The Nobel Prize is a conventional annual international awards given in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in achievements and recognition of academic, peace, cultural and/or scientific advances Firstly, we can understand the background of the European union from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community made in 1951 and 1958 from these Six countries of Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EU is a group of liberal democratic countries that have come together in order to improve the living conditions of its members. It was created in the outcome of the second world war one of its first agendas was to improve the economy and its trade and to create an economic corporation. The idea of making a country to work together and trade therefore making them interdependent and avoid conflict with each other. This was created in order to avoid the bloody conflict European countries faced e.g. Germany, France and bring a long lasting peace. ...
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...Faculty Title: Lord Ashcroft International Business School Effective Team and Performance Management Department: HRM, Organisational Behaviour and Tourism Module Code: MOD003554 Academic Year: 2012/13 Semester/Trimester: 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Exclusive summary 3 3. Company's Background 3 4. Main Body 4 Nature of the Teams 4 Why do we join them? 5 What are teams, groups? 5 Formation 5 Personality 6 Social exchange theory 7 Belbin 7 Team cohesion 8 Concertive Control 9 Performance 10 Emotional Intelligence 12 Conflict 14 5. Conclusion 15 6. Recommendations 15 The List of References 17 The List of Bibliography 20 1. Introduction This report is designed to critically analyse positive and negative issues surrounding team dynamics and team formation that has occurred in the provided case study using appropriate theories and concepts such as team cohesion, structure, team norms/values and stages of group development. Furthermore, report will also evaluate the critical factors such as social loafing, team size, emotional intelligence and will summarise them introducing with the main ones which impacts effective team environment most. Moreover, recommendations will be proposed for change to occur in the team according to decision-making, leadership style and will...
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...Abdullah, my aunt, uncle and I. Our family tradition is taking breakfast together every Friday. Every member of the family ought to be present at the breakfast table no matter the time he or she slept last night. Even if one member of the family is mad at the other, he or she must be present at the table at 10 a.m. and none is supposed to leave the table until all the family members are through with their breakfast and said our prayers. This is because most of my family members are preoccupied and so they are always busy and do not find time to sit together with the rest of us who are not busy and have meals together. This makes connecting as a family very difficult and that is why the Friday meeting is compulsory for all of us. When we take breakfast together as a family, we share more than just food. Taking breakfast together is a way of building protective assets that strengthen our health and development. When we take breakfast together, we catch up with one another and spend time together even if it is for two hours only. We chat, ask one another how they spent their night, week, how they are faring in their jobs and about their plans for the day. Therefore, when we take Friday breakfast together, we bond with one another. Chatting over regular breakfasts at home, we learn how to get along with one another and get a chance to speak up more around with the family members who are closest to us. The family tradition of taking breakfast on Fridays together is the logical...
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...CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Social networking websites are a must for the Internet community to stay in touch with each other Social networking web sites help people keep in touch with old friends, make new friends, distribute new data or product, and many more aspects of our everyday lives. We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to: (1) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system. (2) Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) View and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. HOW DOES ‘SNS’ WORK While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends who are also users of the system. Profiles are unique pages where one can type oneself into being. After joining an SNS, an individual is asked to fill out forms containing a series of questions. The profile is generated using the answers to these questions, which typically include descriptors such as age, location, interests, and an "about me" section. Most sites also encourage users to upload a profile photo. Some sites allow users to enhance their profiles by adding multimedia content or modifying their profile's look and feel. Others, such as Facebook, allow users to add modules (Applications) that enhance...
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...their job, as opposed to their employers choosing their workers (Williams and Adam-Smith 2006). Labours are mainly made up of unskilled or semi-skilled workers. Unskilled workers do not possess any skills thus having the weakest power in employee relations. Semi-skilled workers on the other hand possess some firm-specific skill which gives them some power like in wage settings (Grosfeld and Nivet 1999). Since the goal of the employer is to employ workers at the lowest cost and workers have weak power, they are unable to secure a good wage or benefits. There is also managerial prerogative in which managers have “the right to manage” because they are the “legitimate agent of the employer” and have the possession of certain skills (William and Adam-Smith 2006) resulting in workers having no voice in decision-making. As a result of the difference in power between workers and employers and the lack of voice in decision making, this entices workers to join a trade union. The main roles of the trade union are to provide a counterbalance to managerial prerogative through employee representation and participation in job regulation. This process is known as collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a “rule-making process” (Ewing 2005) that set the term and conditions on which labour is hired and allows workers to challenge and influence managerial decisions...
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...membership criteria. While there are undeniable benefits to some member states, great sacrifices must be made before, during, and after the integration process which eventually render a nation powerless over its monetary policy. Currently, every European nation is faced with the question of whether to join European Monetary Union; however, the eagerness with which new member states join is paralleled by the resistance of several holdouts to adoption of the common currency. With the unprecedented growth rate of the Euro-zone over the past decade and the number of nations currently making the required policy adjustments, core members need to be aware of the motivating factors fueling the growth in the number of new member states. The European Union is experiencing an adverse selection scenario in which nations seeking increased stability are willing to make the sacrifices that membership entails while the redistributive effect of wealth from existing to new relatively poorer member states is an implicit benefit of the current system. When Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, Christian Pineau of France, Joseph Luns of the Netherlands, Antonion Segni from Italy, Joseph Bech from Luxemburg, and Konrad Adenauer from the Republic of Germany signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957 creating the European Economic Community(EEC), their long-term objective was the creation of a union bound by political integration with a market between members free from traditional barriers to trade. It was not until the...
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...The strategy of IS is brutal and unforgiving in a sense that their claim of becoming a caliphate requires vows from the Muslim community to their state and its leader, and if Muslim groups deem otherwise, IS does not consider them real Muslims (Fink & Sugg, 2015). IS believes the duty of jihadists is to establish the caliphate, and that it can only be done so by force of arms. There seems to be no plan of IS to satisfy or even embrace all of the different factions of the Muslim community, rather the belief here is that the population should be pushed by whatever means necessary to join the Islamic State, and those that stand against, again, are not Muslim in the eyes of IS (Fink & Sugg, 2015). Instead, they would be considered opposition to IS, and as we have all seen, non-supporters are brutally and publicly executed. Coupled with the brutality in which IS executes its tactics and its declaration of the caliphate, IS has forged new relationships with other terrorist organizations, including Africa’s Boko Haram, lending to their ideology of creating an Islamic State. Such forged relationships, or partnerships rather, are extremely dangerous to the U.S. We are no longer looking at one foreign area in the Middle East as the source of attacks, rather the threat has moved over continents, providing another hotbed for potential...
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...FRATERNITY INVOLVEMENT AMONG BSMT STUDENTS A Research Paper Presented toMr. Bernie S. Bayogos Mentor, Research and Evaluation Iloilo State College of Fisheries College of Maritime Studies TiwiBarotac Nuevo,Iloilo In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the subject Research 311 -Research and Evaluation By: Ezekiel A. Majano 1stsemester, S.Y. 2012-2013 APPROVAL SHEET A research paper entitled “FRATERNITY INVOLVEMENT AMONG BSMT STUDENTS”, prepared and submitted by Ezekiel A. Majano in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Research 311-Research and Evaluation is hereby accepted. Bernie S. Bayogos, MAEM Subject –Teacher BOOTS D. Arroz, MAEd. Reader –Critic AMALIA D. Dohina,MILE-Soc. Sci. Reader-Critic Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Research 311- Research and Evaluation. Bernie S. Bayogos, MAEM Subject –Teacher Date TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page TITTLE PAGE i APPROVAL SHEET ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii DEDICATION iv ABSTRACT v LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii LIST OF APPENDICES viii I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Statement of the Problem Hypothesis Theoretical and Conceptual Framework Significance of...
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..............................................................................8 V. Production & Operations Plan............................................................................. ..9 VI. Marketing Plan................................................................................................10-12 VII. Management Overview.......................................................................................13 VIII. Assessment of Risk.............................................................................................14 IX. Financial Plan...............................................................................................15-17 X. Viability...............................................................................................................18 XI. Appendices…………………………………………………………….....…19-21 Executive Summary It is apparent that those who serve in the industry of art have a difficult time getting to that metaphorical arena where their art may be admired by millions of people, who will in due course be spending money on the services of the artist. We have analyzed a few reasons why there are so many hidden talents across the globe, and right here in our own backyards is the very competitive nature of...
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...absence of economical relations between the east and the central colonies [Riendeau 156]. For two decades the British North America colonies came to the realization that their continued growth and the survival independently of “a powerful and ambitious neighbour, would depends on the breakdown of isolation and a convergence of their diverse interests” [Riendeau 156]. Most historians, who describe the period before 1867, divide the reasons that led to the Confederation into few general groups such as: the coming of the railway age, which made transcontinental transportation and communication feasible, the British withdraw as an imperial force, the willingness of the USA to annex its northern neighbour, the political deadlock of the United Canada, the rise of a Maritime union movement, the necessity to extend a territory for agriculture. This, all together, created unique situation when the British North colonies received the opportunity to create new nation is known as “the Dominion Canada” [Riendeau 156]. Let’s look what were the main reasons for that. 1. External Factors. 1.1 British impact. 1.1.1 The change of trade politics. In 1846 The Britain repealed the Corn Laws, which provided extremely strong support for the trade between Britain and the British colonies. Since that time Canada did not have advantages in trade with Britain, what highly reduced export from Canada and pushed the Government to find new trade destination. Obviously the easiest and, I guess,...
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...Investing | Companies & Industry | Banking & Finance | Economy & Policy | Opinion | Life & Leisure | Mgmt & Mktg Advanced Search RSS Content Guide Follow us on | Technology | BS Products Section Home | Guru Speak | Management | Marketing | Strategy | Kit | the strategist | Columnists | BSchools | Books & Ideas | People & Careers Home > Mgmt & Mktg Live Markets | Commodities Text or company name Keyword Go Email this Facebook Twitter Share 1 Print this Maybelline seeks to crack the beauty code Nielsen data show that the L?Oreal group brand is fourth after Lakme, Elle 18 and Revlon. Can it break into the top three? Viveat Susan Pinto / Mum bai Apr 09, 2012, 00:13 IST Ads by Google Submit Your Resume : 2-10 years Exp. Salary 3-15 Lakhs. To Apply, Register on Shine.com Now Shine.com/Pharma_Jobs It began with a provocatively titled headline — WTF — in January this year. But by the end of it, Women Take Forever (or WTF) was the most popular topic on Facebook and Twitter, with men as well as women voicing their opinions on the subject, even taking potshots at each other whenever the opportunity presented itself. This, however, was just part of what Maybelline New York, the cosmetic brand from French major L’Oreal, had in mind for its new Clearglow Bright Benefit or BB Cream — a product that combines the benefits of a foundation, sun block and moisturiser. Dare To Go Nude was the next part of this campaign, which was nothing but the launch phase...
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...False Questions 1. (p. 4) Fundamentally, a labor union is a group of workers who join together to influence the nature of their employment. TRUE Difficulty: Easy 2. (p. 4) The widening gap between the richest and poorest individuals in the U.S. is in part due to the weakened position of labor unions. TRUE Difficulty: Easy 3. (p. 5) When an employer uses an employee suggestion box to gather ideas and concerns from its employees, it is primarily addressing the labor relations goal of efficiency. FALSE Difficulty: Moderate 4. (p. 5) The goals of efficiency, equity, and voice in the workplace rarely conflict with one another. FALSE Difficulty: Easy 5. (p. 6) A key role of unions is to negotiate work rules and practices that ensure fair treatment of employees by their managers and employers. TRUE Difficulty: Easy 6. (p. 6-7) In the United States, employees have broad protections against arbitrary dismissal such that employers must provide a good, business related reason for firing someone. FALSE Difficulty: Moderate 7. (p. 6) The official policy of the Unites States is to protect workers’ rights to act together for mutual aid and protection in the workplace and to promote collective bargaining as a way to resolve workplace conflict. TRUE Difficulty: Moderate 8. (p. 7) In the U.S., workers can generally be discharged for good cause, no cause, and even a morally wrong cause. TRUE Difficulty: Moderate ...
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...……………..…………………………………………………..…...9-10 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………....10 References ……………………………………………………………………………………….11 Abstract This paper will examine whether or not there exist a current need for labor unions. ? During the 1700’s to early 1800’s, men, women, and children were treated to unbearable working conditions, low wages, and long hours. Over time the workers became fed up of the abuse and decide to unite and make changes. This change resulted in the creation of labor unions. Through, the creation and use of these unions, workers have enjoyed perks such as 40 hour work days, certain benefits and better working conditions. Over the years, the labor force has undergone multiple changes. Laws were enacted to protect employees and hold employers accountable for their abuse of personnel. With the creation and passing of the multiply employment laws, one must ask, does the need for unions still exist? Do they still serve a function or have they out served their purpose? You may associate the names Ronald Reagan, Susan B. Anthony, and Melissa Gilbert with acting, the Civil Rights movement and the presidency of the United States. However, all three individuals had one thing in common. At one point in their lives, they were union presidents (Carrell p. 14). What is it about a union that would attract such famous personnel to not only join, but to...
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