The paper will transition to discuss effective practices and common characteristics of effective leaders tying the concepts from business thought to educational leadership. Finally, a discussion will be presented detailing current educational and economic trends for schools for the 21st century and a summary of the leadership that will be required. A Business and Educational Leadership Perspective: A Required Change Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th century author of The Prince (1981), stated, “The
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J Fam Econ Iss (2012) 33:231–249 DOI 10.1007/s10834-012-9302-7 ORIGINAL PAPER The Generation Y’s Working Encounter: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and other Chinese Cities Hong-kin Kwok Published online: 7 March 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Understanding the encounter of different generations may be a determining factor in the success of organizations. In order to have a clear understanding about the new generation, this article examines the working
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r a c t Article history: Received 16 March 2015 Received in revised form 14 October 2015 Accepted 14 December 2015 Available online 21 December 2015 The objectives of this confirmatory study were to investigate the association of socio-economic demographics (age, education of respondent, gender, monthly family income, parentage education), motives (communication and information, self-actualization and outward looking) of using Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and attitudinal and behavior
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Abstract In an era of globalization, more and more companies tend to choose global virtual team with members of different cultural backgrounds because leaders gradually promote their company to the world. Global projects with using virtual teams are primarily linked through computer and telecommunications technologies across national boundaries. Globalization of the construction industry has brought unique challenges such as coordination among project participants from different countries, and
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1 Introduction The concept of CSR has been traced through the corporate system for centuries throughout the world; however a formal writing of CSR has been into the limelight since 1950s ie the 20th century and hence has been named as the modern era of CSR. Through years, lot of researches had defined and explained CSR based on their empirical research, understanding, alternative themes and frameworks. In short the entirety of CSR can be understood from the three words contained within its title
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Melbourne Produced on archival quality paper ABSTRACT This thesis aims to examine how and why a continental-oriented China has shifted its maritime strategic orientation and naval force structure from its coast toward the far seas in an era of interdependent international system. Generally, China is an ancient continental land power with an incomplete oceanic awareness. With the transformation after the Cold War of China’s grand strategy from landward security to seaward security, maritime
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CASE STUDY OF MBALE MUNICIPAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL By: WANDULU KOSEA 2011-B141-10072 A REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS OF UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY MAY, 2014 DECLARATION I, Wandulu Kosea declare that the content of this dissertation is my original work and it has never been submitted to any University or institution of higher learning
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PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT www.eiilmuniversity.ac.in Subject: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT Credits: 4 SYLLABUS Nature Scope and process of management, historical evolution of management & its foundation. Different approaches and systems of management, Types of skills, roles and modern challenges. Management Planning Process. Managerial decision Making Introduction to Organizing Organizational Structure and Its Dimensions. Different Types of Organizational Design and Their Advantages and Disadvantages
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for data collection to elicit information from the respondents. 324 respondents were purposefully selected. The respondents cut across all six departments (Mass Communications, Geography& Planning, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology and Economics) in the Faculty of social science. 24 questionnaires were dropped from the analysis on the count of incomplete data entry at the respondent end. Therefore, the analysis presented is for the remaining 300 questionnaires i.e n= 300. The findings revealed
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1. RUKUN NEGARA: THE NATIONAL IDEOLOGY 4.1.1 The Background of Rukun Negara |Date |Incidence/Instrument |Notes | |13 May 1969 |Racial clash erupted |a local quarrel flared into a racial clash | |16 May 1969 |The Yang di-Pertuan Agong(YDA) declared a state of |Special Ordinance (Special powers) Emergency
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