development and validation of a holistic manufacturing LO model for Trinidad and Tobago. Keywords: Learning Organisation (LO), holistic model, Trinidad and Tobago 1. Introduction Increasingly in Trinidad and Tobago, leading industry and government groups have
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Sociolinguistics overlaps to a considerable degree with pragmatics. It is historically closely related to linguistic anthropology and the distinction between the two fields has even been questioned recently. It also studies how language varieties differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social or socioeconomic classes. As the usage of a
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The Role of Product Lifecycle Management Systems in Organizational Innovation Hamzeh K. Bani Milhim, Xiaoguang Deng, Andrea Schiffauerova, and Yong Zeng* Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, 1455 Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8 yong.zeng@concordia.ca Abstract. Innovation is a critical ingredient of today’s organizations. Innovativeness helps organizations to maintain their success and
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(labour) and employers (management). Concept of Industrial Relations: The term ‘Industrial Relations’ comprises of two terms: ‘Industry’ and ‘Relations’. “Industry” refers to “any productive activity in which an individual (or a group of individuals) is (are) engaged”. By “relations” we mean “the relationships that exist within the industry between the employer and his workmen.” The term industrial relations explain the relationship between employees and management which stem directly
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concerns the legal right or general expectation of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, and to what extent, information about them is communicated to others.” (Lecture notes) One of the privacy problems includes unauthorized access, which violates the laws and company’s policies, can limit a person to access to his/her personal information, and threaten the company’s legitimacy in its interactions with its stakeholders. In this case, TJX experienced an information
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1 Social Capital and Facebook Groups' Members Knowledge Sharing Behavior Manal ElKordy Assistant Professor Business Administration Department Faculty of Commerce Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt melkordy@hotmail.com Abstract The main challenge of any virtual community is the supply of enough content through the active sharing of knowledge among community members. This paper integrates the factors of social capital theory; namely, social ties, knowledge self-efficacy, fairness, identification
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Client: David Baker - the leader of a task force created to investigate the sales forecasting procedures at Acton-Burnett (‘the Company’) Problem: Baker’s team has been unable to deliver results expected by all the stakeholders Root causes: Although some external root causes (environment) were present, such as fluctuating gold prices and recession that led to the Company's wide crisis, most of the root causes were internal, stemming from the Organization and David Baker’s behavior and abilities
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Chapter 5 * a prediction of the future market potential for a specific product. * sales forecast * is a quantitative estimate, in either physical or monetary units, of the total sales for a product within a market. * Market potential * is the portion of market potential that one among a set of competing firms can reasonably expect to obtain. * Sales potential * based on primary research * Build-up approach * Forecast economic conditions, such as these: I. GNP
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TEAM COMPOSITION: IMPACT OF HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY INTRODUCTION A team is a group which has a common goal or common objective. Unlike groups, a team focuses on their collective outcome. Usually, teams have members with higher skills which help them in maximizing their strengths and minimizing their weaknesses accordingly. Every member in the team need to understand how to help other team members to build unity amongst them. Unity and understanding create a sense of responsibility among team
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Chapter 1. Literature Review: Borderline Personality Disorder in university students 1.1 Chapter Overview The literature review first presents the evolution of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) over the past 60 years, highlighting the shift from psychodynamic perspectives to that of biological and environmental determinates. Diagnostic classification of BPD is then examined, and subsequently discussed in terms of sectors of psychopathology that serve to demarcate the disorder. Next, dominant
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