August 2011, Issue 6 Editor’s note to readers Welcome to the sixth edition of Human Capital Matters—the digest for time poor leaders and practitioners with an interest in human capital and organisational capability. This edition focuses on the concept of employee engagement and its application to the public service workforce. The contribution of employee engagement to organisational performance is central to many of the human capital reform initiatives advocated in Ahead of the Game: Blueprint
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[11]. This paper introduces a self regulating e-learning framework that provides solutions to the problems discussed. It is based on a Continuous Improvement Model as proposed by Deming who was instrumental for introducing TQM, a quality management concept in USA and Japan in the post war world. The Model facilitates faculties to design and deploy their course content in an e-learning website. Provisions are given to collect and analyze feedbacks
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The electoral system in United Kingdom The electoral system in United Kingdom After the examination of Canadian national institution, it has been nominated that a few reforms are intensely needed in the Canadian institutions for the due management of the regional and the inter-governmental issues (Loiacono, 2010). The three suggested reforms are the reforms in the Supreme Courts, the reforms in the senate, the reforms in the House of Commons Supreme Court The need for the reform is elevated
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With China becoming a global economic and political force, we need to learn from and to understand Chinese leadership philosophies. We must also consider that China is now in the process of blending its tradition, customs and practices with Western concepts and ideas. In the business world, it is the blending of its wisdom and Western practices. Successful leadership behavior of today's more culturally diverse workforce is one of the most important challenges organizations face. CHINA The People's
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(RET). Sigmund Freud’s, personality theory encourage scientist to look into the unseen, unconscious and underlying factors that influence a person’s thinking pattern and behavior. Freud’s personality was centered on the unconscious. Freud’s key concepts on defense mechanism, today are helpful in properly assessing and working together with patients and developing individualized treatment plans based on the needs of the individual (IEP 2005) Carl Jung’s theory which derived from Freud’s with
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Descriptive policy analysis on Youth Entrepreneurship Policy Introduction and Background Many young people in Zimbabwe cannot find employment. This has become particularly acute since the onset of the Zimbabwean economic crisis in the late 1990s. The rate of youth unemployment with regard to both formal and informal sectors of the Zimbabwe economy stood at 19 percent for females, 11 percent for males (Chakanya, 2008). This has left a huge problem to policy makers to come up with policies specifically
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Underexplored pitfalls 11 Conclusion 12 References 14 Introduction This paper is written within the framework of the master course ‘Restorative Justice’. It aims to be an academic reflection on some of the concepts educated throughout these classes.[1] The literature on restorative justice is extensive and therefore the case for it will not be made again here. Basic notions will not be repeated in this paper. The majority of criminologists already accept the
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Enhancing Access and Control to Sustainable Livelihood Assets of the Manobo Tribe through Improved and Strengthened Selfgovernance of the Ancestral Territory – Effectiveness Review Full Technical Report Photo credit: PBPF Oxfam GB Women’s Empowerment Outcome Indicator June, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary...................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 Introduction and Purpose .......................
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resulted which contribute to the detriment the employee morale and high employee turnover. The primary concern is, how does one challenge an entrenched management to create a positive environment to a means that is or will be conducive to all. Analysis For a business model to work it must have installed a powerful yet engaging plan and that is “total quality management”, or TQM. The leadership must be very clear in its mission to achieve TQM. “Total Quality Management (TQM) today is a potent
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According to Cooper et al. (2003) as cited in Abecassis-Moedas (2006), new product design can be defined as “a creative activity using market and company information to produce a 2 or 3 dimensional product that satisfies the consumer and aids company profitability”. Ulrich and Eppinger (2003) stated the process to develop new product need contributions from all the functions of a firm. Peters et al. (1999) develop a model to explain the new product design and development (NPDD) process. It was
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