E SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in
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Introduction – Michael J. Austin, Guest Editor Part I Multiple Social Science Perspectives of Poverty Theories of Poverty: Findings from Textbooks on Human Behavior and the Social Environment Amanda J. Lehning, Catherine M. Vu, & Indira Pintak Economic Theories of Poverty Sun Young Jung & Richard Smith Sociological Theories of Poverty in Urban America Jennifer Price Wolf Psychological Theories of Poverty Kelly Turner & Amanda Lehning An Anthropological View of Poverty Kristine Frerer
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demonstrated stage by stage in a conscious manner as to show that science is the result of, and at once, itself a form of creative activity of man; a conscious creation for that matter which arose out of the need of man. It was a need borne out of the interaction of
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Ashridge Business School http://www.ashridge.org.uk EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever’s London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. The world’s third biggest consumer goods company would double the size of its business, he said, by channelling its efforts toward achieving
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The Quality of working life refers to the relationship between a worker and his environment, adding the human dimension to the technical and economic dimensions within which work is normally viewed and designed. QWL relates to the facilities and conditions in which workers have to work. The main purpose of doing this project is to understand what good quality work life means to employees in the retail sector and how it affects the organization. It speaks about how an organization should keep their
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Organizational Culture as a Predictor of Job Satisfaction: The Case of Development Bank of Ethiopia By: Biniyam Teka A Project Submitted to School Of Commerce in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Masters of Art Degree in Human Resource Management (HRM) Advisor: Tilaye Kassahun (PhD) Addis Ababa University School of Commerce Graduate Program February, 2012 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Acknowledgment I would like to take the opportunity to sincerely thank those who helped me finish the research
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Information dissemination is an old as man’s ability to communicate meaningfully and intelligently among people to differentiate human beings from animals. There had been some existed channels of making meaningful transfer of information in form, facets and useful ideas through diverse kinds of tangible and intangible media. Since most of these early channels of communication were predominantly physical, they came with lots of problems and difficulties. Imagine in
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Information dissemination is an old as man’s ability to communicate meaningfully and intelligently among people to differentiate human beings from animals. There had been some existed channels of making meaningful transfer of information in form, facets and useful ideas through diverse kinds of tangible and intangible media. Since most of these early channels of communication were predominantly physical, they came with lots of problems and difficulties. Imagine in
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Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship. List five contributions to the study of Entrepreneurship. Introduction Businesses are any undertaking created for the purpose of creating utility. Utility is simply the satisfaction derived from consuming certain goods and services. Businesses are created by a special kind of labour which is also referred to as the entrepreneur. Entrepreneur is regarded as a special kind of labour because not all labour possesses entrepreneurial abilities which enable them to
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The Analysis of Marketing Strategies of Gold Stone Based on the SWOT Theory College of Foreign Language Studies, Guangxi Normal University 200910501086 Luo Jifang Supervisor: Gong Min [Abstract] In recent years, with the fast evolution of the electronic industry and the increase of the consumer demand, a large number of electronic enterprises get the opportunities to expand. Among them, the growing of Samsung Electronics is the most surprising. Samsung Electronics is the biggest electronic
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